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porridge Definition

por·ridge (pôr′ij, pär′-)

noun

  1. Obsolete pottage
  2. Brit. a soft food made of cereal or meal boiled in water or milk until thick

Etymology: altered < pottage by confusion with ME porrey < OFr poree < VL porrata, leek broth < L porrum, leek, akin to Gr prason, leek

porridge Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • stir: An Intentional Church: Bulletin No 5 posted 18 April 2006 - " stirring the porridge " !
  • eat: They ate meal porridge; African children were better educated than their own.
  • cook: Next day we cooked porridge on the fire which Ann had fed with coal earlier.
  • make: Makes a smooth porridge using half milk, half water.
  • have: We also had porridge, It is like being at home.
  • include: Oats are also a good source, so if you include porridge in your diet, you should have zinc covered.

Adjective modifier

  • oatmeal: Then to the steerage cook's credit must also be placed the oatmeal porridge which formed my daily delight at breakfast.
  • thick: The pulp mass created begins to look like thick porridge.
  • cold: At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a mess of cold porridge into a pig trough.
  • hot: Instead of enjoying fresh fruit, I'll be tucking into a bowl of hot porridge each morning.
  • special: Why not try our special porridge cooked on the Aga overnight, or try our granola cooked to our own special recipe.

Modifies a noun

  • oats: The porridge oats were Mrs Walters ' own supply.
  • oat: Try soaking porridge oats overnight in full cream milk.

Noun used with modifier

  • maize: Maize porridge is the weaning food for babies in Nigeria.
  • snail: Renowned for his snail porridge, he said he was " speechless " at the award.
  • rice: He worked 16-hour days on a single bowl of rice porridge a day.
  • milk: He has milk porridge or tea for breakfast, for dinner they mostly have potatoes and bacon and milk porridge for supper.
  • breakfast: Serve warm with a dollop of low-fat vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt or stir into your breakfast porridge.

Preposition: with

  • milk: You don't make porridge with milk, just oats, water, a dash of salt, and a little sugar.

Preposition: for

  • breakfast: We might have a bit of porridge for breakfast for a change.
porridge Quotes

I sat through the first act and heard my lovely lines falling like cold porridge on a damp mattress.

—Bridie,James pseudonym of  Osborne Henry Mavor

   There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

—Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce

Alone in the hissing laboratory of his wishes, Mr Pugh minces among bad vats and jeroboams, tiptoes through spinneys of murdering herbs, agony dancing in his crucibles, and mixes especially for Mrs Pugh a venomous porridge unknown to toxicologists which will scald and viper through her until her ears fall off like figs, her toes grow big and black as balloons, and steam comes screaming out of her navel.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais