porridge

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ//
Canada//ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ//
Australia//ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ//
//ˈpɑɹɪd͡ʒ//

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

noun

1
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.
2
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast. Oat porridge; oatmeal.
3
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast. Rice porridge; congee.
4
slangA prison sentence.
Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
5
rareA type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

Etymology

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.

Forms

plural: porridges

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