stirabout
Americannoun
noun
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a kind of porridge orginally made in Ireland
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a bustling person
Etymology
Origin of stirabout
First recorded in 1675–85; noun use of verb phrase stir about to stir up
Example Sentences
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At twelve o’clock it gets dinner, composed of a tin of coarse Indian meal stirabout, and at half-past five it gets a piece of dry bread and a tin of water for its supper.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018
We’d have a dollop of stirabout each and enough flour for a tiny loaf of bread that would last us for days.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
I went and broke the sad news to Patsey Mike, who was mixing stirabout at the time.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 by Various
Sometimes they are pounded when quite dry into a sort of meal, and with water added to them, are made into a kind of stirabout.
From Popular Adventure Tales by Reid, Mayne
Dora, avillish, give him the could stirabout that's in the skillet, jist for his affection, the crathur.
From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
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