Porridge Definition

pôrĭj, pŏr-
noun
Pottage.
Webster's New World
A soft food made of cereal or meal boiled in water or milk until thick.
Webster's New World

(British slang) A prison sentence.

Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
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Noun

Singular:
porridge
Plural:
porridges

Origin of Porridge

  • Alteration of pottage (influenced by obsolete porray vegetable soup) (from Middle English porreie) (from Old French poree leek soup) (from por leek) (from Latin porrum)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Variant of pottage, influenced by porray.

    From Wiktionary

Porridge Sentence Examples

  • They gave him some more porridge and Morel with a laugh set to work on his third bowl.

  • We also had porridge, It is like being at home.

  • It is either baked into cakes, called tortilla by the Indians of Yucatan, or made into a kind of porridge, as in Ireland.

  • Try soaking porridge oats overnight in full cream milk.

  • For months together a Ruman will subsist on vegetables and mamaliga, the maize porridge that forms his staple diet.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOR

Words Ending With

EGEDGE

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With P8 Letter Words Ending With E