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
The rooms are only a dollar a week, and Aunt Winnie can make stirabout and Irish stews and potato cake to beat any cook I know.
From Killykinick by Mary T. (Mary Theresa) Waggaman
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 Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris
This was a fact which Big Anne might well have admitted, considering that she had just been squatting on her heels to eat her plate of stirabout.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow
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