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porridge

  • noun
  • /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

Example

“Eat your porridge while it's hot!”

Other meanings

  1. Oat porridge; oatmeal.

  2. Rice porridge; congee.

A kind of

  • dish

Kinds of porridge

  • oatmeal

Related words

  • porridgeless
  • porridgelike
  • porridgy
  • do porridge
  • pease porridge
  • plain as porridge
  • plum-porridge
  • porridge belly
  • porridge drawer
  • porridge-stick
  • porridge time
  • pine nut porridge

Example sentences

  • “The seeds can be added to porridge or soup.”

    Tatoeba · Cangarejo · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “porridge” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.