Porridge Definition

pôrĭj, pŏr-
noun
Pottage.
Webster's New World
A soft food made of cereal or meal boiled in water or milk until thick.
Webster's New World

(British slang) A prison sentence.

Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
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Other Word Forms of Porridge

Noun

Singular:
porridge
Plural:
porridges

Origin of Porridge

  • Alteration of pottage (influenced by obsolete porray vegetable soup) (from Middle English porreie) (from Old French poree leek soup) (from por leek) (from Latin porrum)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Variant of pottage, influenced by porray.

    From Wiktionary

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