Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A soft food made by boiling oatmeal or another meal in water or milk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A food made by boiling vegetables in water, with or without meat; broth; soup; pottage.
- n. A food made by slowly stirring a meal or flour of oats, dried pease, or wheat-flour, or other grain, into water or milk while boiling till a thickened mass is formed. The singular form porridge (like broth, kale, soup, etc.) is often used, especially in Scotland, as a plural.
- To take the form of porridge.
- To provide with porridge.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
- n. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- n. British slang A prison sentence
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding
WordNet 3.0
- n. soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
Etymologies
- 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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In short, this porridge is served at just the right temperature.”
“They were sipping on pumpkin porridge that was served in actual mini-pumpkins.”
The Wall Street Journal: Stuffed Cats, Shades Of Black at Chic Parties
“Not everything that swells and bubbles on the hob in the name of porridge is the real thing, though.”
“Chilate de maíz, a corn porridge, is flavored with ginger and allspice and served with sweet bread.”
“In Ayurved moog porridge is suggested as a detox diet.”
“I love the fact that I can sit at my desk in the mornings, eating creamy porridge from the canteen, catch up on emails and my to-do list and anything else I need, and even write the odd LJ entry, all without interruption.”
“Note 91: kukulula: to remove (for example, bracelets from one's arm or porridge from a stirrer) with a sliding motion.”
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘porridge’.
-
Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
-
GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
-
UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
-
UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
-
Oats
avener, avenor, avenary, potato-oat, haver, haver-grass, haverbread, havercake, avercake, oats, groats, rolled oats and 51 more...
-
Pease Porridge Hot
List of terms for porridge dishes made from seeds, grains, legumes, etc. from around the world.
See mollusque's list More gruel?.
mush, oatmeal, frumenty, pinhead oatmeal, porridge, grits, atole, gruel, shuco, polenta, gofio, kachamak and 69 more...
-
essbunny@gmail.com's list
Intrigued by these words...
sphincter, blush, flume, shingle, spurt, pulp, precious, squeal, zest, zeal, cherish, fervor and 35 more...
-
The List Of Good Breakfasts
A list of good breaky; kind of a no-brainer.
Also, I just thought I'd say thanks for adding all of your favourite breakfasts, even if half of 'em don't sound like the're actualy food,...weet-bix, nutrigrain, special k, all bran, crumpets toasted ..., kippers, chorizo, pepper a..., eggs benny, toasted bacon sar..., full english, warm fresh croiss..., liver and bacon and 42 more...
-
words that sound really weird when yo...
I think we all know the feeling. I will post examples as they come to me. Perhaps some sort of connecting thread will be found.
than, ford, touch, weird, mean, that, glasses, paper, that that, now now, when when, wear wear and 14 more...
-
British Food
Traditional British dishes have some of the most unique and interesting names. Here's a list to collect all those wonderfully-named foods and delectable words to describe how delicious British cuis...
spotted dick, black pudding, crumpets, yorkshire pudding, mushy peas, bubble and squeak, scotch egg, fish and chips, clotted cream, full english, bangers and mash, sunday roast and 63 more...
-
pagecrusher's Words
fugu, ilk, rigamarole, superfluous, dearth, sacrosanct, moniker, bifurcate, villainous, onus, brazen, odin and 268 more...
-
dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
-
P is for Porch Dog
My P Words
paddington, paddy wagon, paddy whack, paddywhack, paisano, pandemonium, pantaloon, pantaloons, paper tiger, papoose, parachute pants, parcel and 109 more...
-
Tunie: Word Disassociation
(I'm fairly sure that I'm subverting the whole concept of the Tunie by listing this song. Subversion! Yes! HA HA HA HA! Mine is an evil laugh!!!)
Word Disassociation
antidisestablishm..., quickly, ruby, bionic, about, crouch, a cappella, imposter, flames, distraction, murderous, over and 181 more...
-
The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Death Row
Another news story about words being removed from a dictionary before their time. See also the list of words added to the dictionary.
carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe, dwarf, elf, goblin, abbey, aisle, altar, bishop and 137 more...
-
mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for porridge.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.