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porridgen. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pottage n. Etymology: Variant of pottage n., perhaps partly by association with porray n. Compare earlier porringer n., and also poddish n.In early use, and in modern Scots and English regional use, frequently construed as plural. In sense 4 apparently with allusion to porridge as a typical prison (breakfast) food, although perhaps also partly punning on stir n.3 and stir v.; compare also the use in phrases in quot. 1950 at sense 4. the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] ?1533 G. Du Wes sig. Eei v Ye haue alredy eaten your porage. ?1548 J. Bale iv. sig. Eiiijv They loue no pese porrege, nor yet reade hearynges in lent. 1551 T. Lever (new ed.) sig. E.iiv Hauyng a fewe porage made of the brothe of the same byefe, wyth salte and otemell. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach ii. f. 56 This sort [of Colwoorts]..is sodde with Baken, and vsed in porredge. 1602 B. Jonson iii. iv. sig. F3 He will eate a legge of mutton, while I am in my porridge . View more context for this quotation 1661 S. Pepys 25 Feb. (1970) II. 43 There we did eat some nettle-porrige, which was made on purpose today,..and was very good. 1714 R. A. Hunter i. ii. 3 One of the Servants of this House, who brought me a Mess of Water Gruel, being my special Friend, and knowing how eagerly my Stomach stood towards what was forbidden me by the Physitians, conveys a Hind of Pork into the Porrige. 1748 S. Darwin Diary 20 Feb. in W. S. Dallas tr. E. Krause (1879) 8 Till One, Pease Porrage, Pottatoes and Apple Pye. 1847 E. Brontë I. xiii. 319 Thah willut sup thy porridge tuh neeght; they'll be nowt bud lumps. 1883 Aug. 461/2 With a few drops of this extract we can give the flavor of roast fowl to this vegetable, with a few drops of that turn our porridge into turtle soup. 1939 I. B. Wolcott 174 If you are a New Hampshire Yankee, you have heard about and perhaps eaten bean-porridge..the porridge was made by boiling beans in corned beef liquor and thickening the mixture with Indian meal. 1997 (Nexis) 27 June b29 Haleem, a ground-wheat and meat porridge seasoned with chile, to be scooped up with roti. 2. figurative. the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] 1642 G. Calsine (title) A Messe of Pottage, very well seasoned and crumbd, with Bread of Life,..against the contumelious slanderers of the Divine Service, terming it Porrage. 1662 S. Pepys 24 Aug. (1970) III. 178 Young people..crying out ‘porridge’ often and seditiously in the church; and took the Common Prayer-Book, they say, away. ?1706 E. Hickeringill ii. 22 All other Devotion in the Church is but Porridge, as they prophanely word it; give us Sermons, Sermons, Long-winded Sermons. 1790 E. Burke 12 A..sermon, in which there are some good moral and religious sentiments,..mixed up in a sort of porridge of various political opinions and reflexions. View more context for this quotation 1852 81 Peter Parley's literary porridge for the month of March. 1965 7 Oct. 526/1 Of all the countries in the world today Brazil is easily the most heterogeneous. It is a unique porridge of races and nationalities. 1976 27 36 The empiricists..correlate vaguely-worded, interchangeable scales with each other and call the subsequent statistical porridge, alienation. 2004 (Nexis) 12 Oct. 15 They have taken away any values our nation had, leaving us with a porridge of Lib-Left platitudes. the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [noun] > a semi-fluid substance or mass 1700 S. Sewall 5 Dec. (1973) I. 439 Because of the Porrige of snow, Bearers..rid to the Grave. 1871 1 154 While the engineers were floundering in the porridge at the west end, they wisely resolved to..sink a shaft to grade. 1933 10 Nov. 11/5 The party made what Mr. Stagg called 'a porridge of mud' with which to fill the cracks. 1966 H. Sheppard (ed. 2) 9 Porridge, sludge removed from drains. 1974 H. Evans et al. 17 As skiers pass over porridge they create ruts in the snow. 1997 (Nexis) 13 Dec. 3 When the track rides heavy the horses are galloping through porridge and the jockeys will be coming back splattered in mud. the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun] a1643 W. Cartwright Poems in (1651) sig. P4v Imprimis some Rice Porredge, sweet, and hot. 1704 III. xiii. 323 Here he had such Meat and Porridge as such People use to have. 1776 in D. Herd II. 182 Ye's get a panfu' of plumpin parrage; And butter in them. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in 1st Ser. II. 132 They're gude parritch eneugh. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve ix. 139 Oatmeal porridge formed a considerable part of the people's food. 1886 R. L. Stevenson iii. 18 They're fine, halesome food—they're grand food, parritch. 1915 L. M. Montgomery iii. 23 Davy, for the first time in his life probably, could not eat, but blubbered shamelessly over his porridge. 1953 Dec. 170 It was parritch in the mornin, oatmeal fried in creesh and tatties at dennertime, and parritch at night. 1991 Apr. 20/2 You can order your porridge Cumbrian style—meaning with a measure of whisky in it. society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of 1950 P. Tempest 97 Gravy, dishing out the. During Quarter Sessions or Assizes, when a Judge is giving heavy sentences, he is spoken of as ‘dishing out the gravy (or porridge)’. Thus, ‘Cor, he ain't arf dishin' aht the porridge.’ 1955 D. Webb i. 16 He did his porridge quietly, peacefully, earned full remission and came out. 1968 J. Wainwright 92 D'you think I'd forget the frigging jack 'ut sent me down for two years' porridge? 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ xii. 236 His emotions at the prospect..of yet another dose of porridge were such that he was..incapable of thinking clearly. 1990 (Nexis) 21 Nov. Johnny is a well meaning, likeable lad who is doing porridge for petty crime. Phrases1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais (1737) v. xxviii. 129 Spare your Breath to cool your Porridge. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in 1st Ser. IV. 127 Hold your peace, sir,..and keep your ain breath to cool your ain porridge. 1924 G. B. Shaw ii. 29 If you are going to say ‘Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to the victory’ you may spare your breath to cool your porridge. 2004 27 June 147 Australia was always going to win those matches and the coaches may as well have saved their breath to cool the porridge. 1726 J. Arbuckle Let. 25 June in (1729) II. lxv. 91 This [style of writing] was in order to make everything as plain as porridge. 1761 S. Haliburton (ed. 2) xv. 45 It's as plain as parridge, that he was baith a Romin, and Socinian. 1878 4 May 276/1 Do you think I can't see as plain as porridge what that means? 1937 9 Apr. 15/3 It seems as plain as porridge that M. van Zeeland will gain a large majority. 2002 (Nexis) 21 Apr. 35 a The modest building, plain as porridge, nestles on a corner lot in a quiet neighborhood. 1745 J. D. 10 Then forsooth Principles came up again, and nobody was to have salt to their Porridge, as we say in my country, that had not Abilities. 1764 S. Foote i. 17 I never got salt to my porridge till I mounted at the Royal Exchange. 1791 J. Learmont 65 He can nae buy sa't for's parritch. 1836 26 July 2/2 If a redistribution of property took place in that diocese,..the clergy of it would not even have salt to their porridge. 1996 (Nexis) 29 Dec. Brown will put a swagger in our kilt, salt in our porridge and a qualifying ticket in our sporran in the months ahead. the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > bungle the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)] > make a mess of 1969 D. Clark iii. 79 ‘Three months sounds like generous notice.’ Hunt said soberly, ‘For a man who has made a porridge, perhaps.’ 1971 ‘H. Calvin’ ii. 26 These boffins have made a porridge of this place. 1976 A. White xi. 101 I knew I would make a porridge of explaining it. 2004 (Nexis) 22 Dec. 44 England made a porridge of matters after inserting the tourists and allowing them to make 409. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. 1907 at Porridge sb. Porridge basin. 1957 29 Apr. 7/2 It could be anything from a porridge basin to a domestic pail. 1987 (Nexis) 11 Apr. It was like living on the fertile rim of ‘a great porridge basin’. 1710 E. Ward II. xvii. 341 Give me mad Man's Law, A Chain, dark Room, a Porridge-Bowl, and Straw. 1858 ‘G. Forrest’ ii. 16 Mr. White looked at the pyramids of bread, and at the porridge bowls. 1995 J. Banville 73 Aunt Corky's breakfast tray was on the bedside locker: a porridge bowl with bent spoon, a smeared cup and mismatched saucer, a charred crust of toast. 1557 in E. Roberts & K. Parker (1992) I. 80 ij pories diches & a Candellstick. 1684 in M. Cash (1966) 153 Fiue Little puter porieg dishes..Two brass porrieg Crookes. 1855 H. M. Stephens xxviii. 284 I wouldn't know you from a mutton head if I met you in my porridge dish, as the sayin' is. 1995 Nov. 78/1 They demanded special willowware pieces for their elaborate tables: asparagus servers, posset cups, demitasse cups, two-handled covered porridge dishes. 1824 W. Wilson 11 The parrach pan was fill'd up rather fu'. 1980 M. Yorke xiv. 123 She took the porridge pan from the Aga's low oven. 2004 (Nexis) 25 Apr. 44 If you thought the porridge pan was a mess, wait until you deal with beetroot chippings. 1926–7 150/1 Double milk or porridge saucepan..4 pt. 9/-. 1996 (Nexis) 14 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 41 It was a different story with Wittgenstein's porridge saucepan. 1596 T. Nashe sig. K3 Hee may be such another craftie mortring Druggeir, or Italian porredge seasoner. 1893 25 Feb. 2/1 He said that if he were defeated it would ‘not interfere with his porridge-supping propensities’. b. Similative and instrumental. 1907 at Porridge sb. Porridge coloured. 1938 22 June 21/2 Luxan is the name for a new washable hide, porridge-coloured,..that smart racing handbags are being made of. 2002 (Nexis) 19 Apr. 9 The Ministry of Works spent a small fortune camouflaging the flamboyant Victorian architecture to create porridge coloured boxes with little or no natural light. 1830 W. Scott i. 45 In the case of the porridge-fed lunatic. 2004 (Nexis) 4 Jan. 14 This is a book which must wait for a revolution in taste before our porridge-fed palates are ready for it. C2. the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having 1580 C. Hollyband Grand potager, or mangeur de potage, a porrige belly. 1681 W. Robertson (1693) 446 A huge, great,..porridge-belly Friar. 2003 (Nexis) 1 Mar. 70 All the resistance exercise in the world can't put ripples in your porridge belly if you're eating more calories than you're burning. 1899 G. B. Shaw Devil's Disciple in 27 Sept. 7/4 A porridge-faced idiot. 1998 (Nexis) 16 Aug. (Texas Mag.) 4 A porridge-faced waitress waddled to our table carrying one menu. the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > broken ice 1820 in N. Philbrick (2000) xiii. 196 Porridge ice. 1880 Jan. 331/2 The water was full of porridge-ice. 1937 90 302 In the middle of November..two eiders were found swimming about in the porridge ice in Brandy Bay. 1996 8 136/1 Polarstern encountered a field of compressed brash ice interspersed by small intact floes with snow cover south of Halley Bay. This ice type, very aptly termed ‘porridge ice’, is not unusual in that area. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pot for specific food 1578 J. Lyly f. 50 The one ranne at the hare, the other to the porredge potte. 1735 J. Swift II. 410 The Dogs have got Their Dogs-heads in a Porridge-pot. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. vi. 101 Love and raw pease are two ill things in the porridge-pot. 1990 Winter 43/3 The man, role-reversed for the day, ends up standing on his head in the porridge pot. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > stirring stick or spatula 1801 J. Thomson 8 A parratch-stick, a mouse's trap, Sax cutties, an' a spoon. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner 215 Porridge-stick, a piece of hard wood, used for stirring oat-meal porridge. 1944 Nov. 121 Look at the cratur' wi' legs like parritch-sticks and his humpy back and specs. 2003 (Nexis) 24 Feb. 18 Bring the water to the boil and..add the oatmeal,..stirring it briskly... A porridge-stick, called a spurtle,..is used for this purpose. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in 1st Ser. III. 14 This morning about parritch-time. 1895 S. Crockett ix Ye hinna carried in a single peat, an' it comin' on for parritch-time. 2003 (Nexis) 31 July 27 A TPO [sc. travelling post office] chuntering forlornly through the night and waking the residents long before porridge time. Derivatives 1852 R. S. Surtees xxiii. 126 Floundering about in the black porridge-like mess. 1955 10 May 3/5 The balance of sound too porridge-like to give much pleasure. 1996 A. Outwater 22 The beaver actually passes food through its entire digestive tract twice, by eating the gelatinous, porridgelike substance that comes out its anus the first time through. the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [adjective] 1859 J. C. Atkinson xvii. 356 Their damp cloud seats and porridgy mists. 1957 M. Potter & A. Potter 44/1 Cream distemper or porridgey wallpaper. 1998 S. Faulks iii. v. 309 Charlotte..pulled on the dress... With Dominique's porridgey stockings it did not exactly look elegant, but it was well made. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). porridgev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: porridge n. the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [verb (intransitive)] > form semi-fluid substance the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > [verb (intransitive)] > thicken or set 1629 J. Winthrop Let. 15 Jan. in (1825) (modernized text) I. App. 363 Let my son Henry provide such peas as will porridge well, or else none. 1708 J. Hall 24 The sweltred Cook sweats in Porriging the Prisoners, who stand round him like so many poor Scholars begging at the Kitchin Door for College Broth. 2001 4 Jan. b12 Between the ages one and 13, I had a bowl of porridge every morning... Today, I may have a bowl only when I feel like it... You see, I'm all porridged out. society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] > send or take to 1965 B. Knox i. 27 Jean reckoned you blokes had porridged the wrong fella when you pulled in Frank for the Glen Ault job. the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [verb (transitive)] > reduce to pulp 1967 22 Feb. 10/2 Roadways now porridged by the new heavy traffic for which they were not designed. 1989 (Nexis) 17 Nov. 16 The River Vistula was porridged with the discards of human necessity and pleasure. 2001 N. Griffiths 37 Russet breast now porridged in drizzle and blood. All bird life in an instant smashed against this small rock. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.?1533 v.1629 |
