Porridge
['pɒrɪdʒ] or ['pɔrɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick.
Checker: Micawber--From WordNet
Definition
(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; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
Edited by Karl
Definition
n. a kind of pudding usually made by slowly stirring oatmeal amongst boiling water: a kind of broth made by boiling vegetables in water.
Typist: Psyche
Examples
- At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a mess of cold porridge into a pig trough. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The porridge is burnt again! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Poor chips-in-porridge, you are very unmannerly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In my line of life if we were quick at taking offence, we shouldn't be worth salt to our porridge. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was only porridge, and too little of that. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I wasn't brought up on porridge, like MacWhirter, or on potatoes, like old O'Dowd. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Th' wife's a raight cant body, and as clean--ye mught eat your porridge off th' house floor. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Lyman