porridge

IPA: pˈɔrʌdʒ

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.

Examples of "porridge" in Sentences

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.