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porridge

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English

Alternative forms

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

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  • Rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ

Noun

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

  1. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
    Eat your porridge while it's hot!
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎[1]:
      There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
    1. (chiefly British) Oatmeal porridge.
    2. (Malaysia, Singapore) Rice porridge; congee.
  2. (British, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.
    Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
  3. (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English porridge.

Pronunciation

Noun

porridge m (plural porridges)

  1. porridge

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English porridge.

Noun

porridge n (uncountable)

  1. porridge

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative porridge porridgeul
genitive-dative porridge porridgeului
vocative porridgeule
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