porridge

[ pawr-ij, por- ]

noun

1. a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.

porridge

/ ˈpɒrɪdʒ /

noun

1. a dish made from oatmeal or another cereal, cooked in water or milk to a thick consistency
2. slang.
   a term in prison (esp in the phrase do porridge )

Other Words From

• porridge·like adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of porridge¹

1525–35; variant of earlier poddidge, akin to pottage

Word History and Origins

Origin of porridge¹

C16: variant (influenced by Middle English porray pottage) of pottage

Example Sentences

In powder form, it has a mild, nutty flavor and is best used like a protein boost, sprinkled over porridge, stirred into a vegetarian chili or folded into banana bread batter.

From Time

I tried out the book’s recipe for turkey jook, a rice porridge made with turkey stock, which I’d never made before but had eyed over the years.

From Eater

Many of their traditional foods, such as tortillas and pancake-like chorreadas, were adapted by the wider population, while the use of porridges and drinks made from maíz pujagua, or purple corn, are more isolated.

From Eater

Almost everyone who has won has used steel-cut oats and soaked the porridge overnight.

From Eater

Per Carlsson of Sweden snagged the 2017 specialty win with a cloudberry-liqueur porridge brulee.

From Eater

I went to get a bag of horse manure and I make it liquid, like a porridge, and then ... bam!

From The Daily Beast

There, they were presented with 40 crockpots of porridge; stacks of raisins, and piles of spoons.

From The Daily Beast

Two years later, a repentant Uma wore skin-tight Versace in a meek porridge hue.

From The Daily Beast

"Then I'll catch it," I said, laughing at his discomfiture, for I knew he loathed stirring porridge.

From Project Gutenberg

Porridge is a food which satisfies and strengthens, and which, it seems, is rich in bone-forming matter.

From Project Gutenberg

The room was full of healthy-looking workmen, tidily dressed and busily doing honour to the porridge and other items on the menu.

From Project Gutenberg

Robert Burns, who has sung of the haggis and the whisky of his native land, has only made indirect mention of porridge.

From Project Gutenberg

A very small bit of this chestnut grated into a kettle would make a potful of porridge.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• gruel
• oatmeal
• polenta