Pottage
['pɒtɪdʒ] or ['pɑtɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
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Definition
n. anything cooked in a pot: a thick soup of meat and vegetables: oatmeal porridge.—n. Pot′tinger a pottage-maker.
Editor: Tamara
Examples
- But he who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage existed, and Judas Iscariot existed, and Castlereagh existed, and this man exists! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Front-de-Boeuf was burnt alive for a less matter, for he kept a good table for his prisoners, only put too much garlic in his last dish of pottage. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Checker: Thelma