porridge
nounEtymology
Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.
Definitions
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and…
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- Eat your porridge while it's hot!
- 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.
A prison sentence.
- Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
The neighborhood
- neighborcongee
- neighborgruel
- neighboroatmeal
- neighborstiff porridge
Derived
do porridge, keep one's breath to cool one's porridge, Laba porridge, pease porridge, pine nut porridge, plain as porridge, plum-porridge, porridge belly, porridge drawer, porridgeless, porridgelike, porridge pot, porridge-stick, porridge time, porridgy, pumpkin porridge, red bean porridge, rice porridge, save one's breath to cool one's porridge, Teochew porridge, water-porridge
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for porridge. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA