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PORRIDGE DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
PORRIDGE was my What's The Word? choice for Thursday, May 14, 2009
porridge n 1: soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick porridge c.1532, "soup of meat and vegetables," alteration of pottage, influenced by M.E. porreie, from O.Fr. poree "leek soup," from por "leek," from L. porrum "leek." Association with oatmeal is 1643, first in Scottish. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) porridge noun Etymology: alteration of pottage Date: circa 1643 a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick • porridgy adjective Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary porridge Porridge is a thick sticky food made from oats cooked in water or milk and eaten hot, especially for breakfast. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use oatmeal) N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary porridge ˈpɔrɪdʒ n. 1 a dish consisting of oatmeal or another meal or cereal boiled in water or milk. 2 sl. imprisonment. øøporridgy adj. [16th c.: alt. of POTTAGE] 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue PORRIDGE Keep your breath to cool your porridge; i. e. held your tongue. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Porridge \Por"ridge\, n. [Probably corrupted fr. pottage; perh. influenced by OE. porree a kind of pottage, OF. porr['e]e, 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms porridge n. Broth, soup, pottage. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 90 Moby Thesaurus words for "porridge": albumen, batter, bonnyclabber, breakfast food, butter, cataplasm, cereal, clabber, cornflakes, cornstarch, cream, crush, curd, dental pulp, dough, dry cereal, egg white, farina, frumenty, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, grits, gruel, gumbo, gunk, hasty pudding, hominy grits, hot cereal, jam, jell, jelly, kasha, loblolly, mash, millet, molasses, mucilage, mucus, mush, oatmeal, pap, paper pulp, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, pith, plaster, potpourri, poultice, pudding, puffed rice, puffed wheat, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, puree, putty, rag pulp, rob, rolled oats, salad, salmagundi, sauce, semifluid, semiliquid, size, smash, smorgasbord, soup, sponge, squash, starch, stew, sticky mess, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, syrup, treacle, wheatflakes, white lead, wood pulp |
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