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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POR'RIDGE,n. [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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick

Merriam Webster's

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 Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a dish consisting of oatmeal or another meal or cereal boiled in water or milk. 2 sl. imprisonment. Derivatives: porridgy adj. Etymology: 16th c.: alt. of POTTAGE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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)

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Broth, soup, pottage.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Keep your breath to cool your porridge; i. e. held your tongue.

Moby Thesaurus

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