porridge
IPA: pˈɔrʌdʒ
noun
- A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- (chiefly Britain) Oatmeal porridge.
- (Malaysia, Singapore) Rice porridge; congee.
- (Britain, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.
- (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
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Examples of "porridge" in Sentences
- It may also be prepared as a porridge.
- Characters of the sitcom series Porridge.
- Or a tram wheel and a dollop of porridge.
- The present picture is not one of porridge.
- Sadza in appearance is a thickened porridge.
- It also resembles farina, a thinner porridge.
- The porridge here refers to Chinese style porridge.
- In Britain we differentiate between porridge and gruel.
- The porridge is accompanied with Jaggery for sweetness.
- Either the porridge is too hot or the porridge is too cold.
- In short, this porridge is served at just the right temperature.
- They were sipping on pumpkin porridge that was served in actual mini-pumpkins.
- Chilate de maíz, a corn porridge, is flavored with ginger and allspice and served with sweet bread.
- Not everything that swells and bubbles on the hob in the name of porridge is the real thing, though.
- Sometime before the mid-third century, wheat (triticum) had displaced emmer (far), allowing bread to replace porridge as the staple of the diet, although Greeks continued to refer to Romans as porridge eaters.
- Then taking the beef out, he doth boil the rest till it is thick, which we call porridge, which, with bread, we do eat as hot as we may; and after this we have fish, and thus we have some warm thing every supper.
- It is known that when oats reached Britain, they were already being consumed as a gruel by the Teutons and Gauls and indeed the name porridge derives from the French word, potage - the strikingly similar word porage, which is still in use to this day, is another way Scots spell porridge.