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porridge
English
Alternative forms
- parritch (Scotland)
- porage
- porrige
Etymology
Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??.?d??/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /?p???d??/
- (NYC) IPA(key): /?p???d??/
- Rhymes: -???d?
Noun
porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)
- 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.
- (Britain, slang) A prison sentence.
- (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
Translations
See also
- congee
- gruel
- oatmeal
- stiff porridge
Further reading
- porridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Périgord
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pabble
English
Verb
pabble (third-person singular simple present pabbles, present participle pabbling, simple past and past participle pabbled)
- (rare, obsolete) To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
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