parritch
Britishnoun
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An old lady who lived near my boyhood home used to tell me that the greatness of the Scottish race was attributable to "patience, pairseverance, and lots of parritch."
From Time Magazine Archive
Betterton is bitter bad; Ogle, "wersh as cauld parritch without sawte!"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
The robin red-breast and the wran Coost out about the parritch pan; And ere the robin got a spune, The wran she had the parritch dune.
From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by Wright, M. E. S.
They are guid parritch—no' like my mither's parritch.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Ramsay's best Anecdote. n Scotland, the staff of life is porridge, pronounced parritch by the natives.
From Friend Mac Donald by O'Rell, Max
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