porridge

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None of the ordinary breakfast rules, such as scowling while eating, and saying the porridge is as stiff as glue and the eggs are as tough as leather, are observed.

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  1. noun A soft food made by boiling oatmeal or another meal in water or milk.

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  • ‘Well, I don’t know that the porridge is an awfully sound line of defence. —  The Key - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 08
  • Members of the society consulted historical sources and Charles Dickens 'beloved novel to recreate the porridge, which is made from water, oats, milk and an onion. —  WBAY Action 2 News
  • P: On that day, every family eats "la4 ba1 zhou1", laba porridge which is made with cereal, beans, nuts and dried fruit.
  • Pirate Bay's crew have taken a lashing of porridge from the Swedish courts, although they may yet escape. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • None of the ordinary breakfast rules, such as scowling while eating, and saying the porridge is as stiff as glue and the eggs are as tough as leather, are observed. —  The Magic Pudding
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  1. 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).

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  1. Formerly also porredge, porrage; Scots parritch, etc.; with accommodation suffix -idge, -age (due to confusion with pottage), from Middle English porrey, porray, etc., porridge, pottage: see porrey.
  2. from porridge, n.
 

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/ˈpɑrɪdʒ/
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