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Webster 1913 Edition


Porridge

Por′ridge

,
Noun.
[Probably corrupted fr.
pottage
; perh. influenced by OE.
porree
a kind of pottage, OF.
porrée
, fr. L.
porrum
,
porrus
, leek. See
Pottage
, and cf.
Porringer
.]
A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding;
as, barley
porridge
, milk
porridge
, bean
porridge
, etc.

Webster 1828 Edition


Porridge

POR'RIDGE

,
Noun.
[L. farrago, or from porrum, a leek.]
A kind of food made by boiling meat in water; broth.
This mixture is usually called in America, broth or soup, but not porridge. With us, porridge is a mixture of meal or flour, boiled with water. Perhaps this distinction is not always observed.

Definition 2024


porridge

porridge

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Noun

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

  1. A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
  2. (chiefly Britain) A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
    Eat your porridge while it's hot!
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 1/1/2, in Piracy: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
      There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
  3. (British slang) A prison sentence.
    Just do your porridge and keep your head down.

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