Definition of porridge in English:

porridge

noun ˈpɒrɪdʒˈpɔrɪdʒ

mass nounBritish

1A dish consisting of oatmeal or another meal or cereal boiled in water or milk.
Example sentencesExamples
- I corrected him - we alternate between semolina one day, and mealie meal porridge the next.
- Aaron's breath steamed in the chill air as he got up from the porridge he was stirring to unlock the prisoner.
- Another traditional dish is gruel or porridge made with the dried fruit of sago palms.
- Add the milk and allow the porridge to boil for 30-35 minutes on low heat while stirring occasionally.
- I start with porridge, and then mid-morning I have six egg whites on brown toast.
- Within hours, Frost had been sheltered in a hut, where he was given milk and porridge and berries and ale.
- Among the dishes made from barley, barley porridge is more delicate than oatmeal porridge, to the point of being rather insipid.
- They set out as soon as they had finished their breakfast, a quick meal of porridge and plain bread with a scraping of butter.
- Millet is ground into flour and made into porridge by boiling it in water.
- A restaurant serving dishes including snail porridge and smoked bacon and egg ice cream has been named the second best in the world.
- When I taste porridge I remember my early childhood in Edinburgh.
- While this brand of porridge contains no added sugar, the manufacturers have managed to slip in skimmed milk and cream powder.
- A cooked breakfast is always available as well as porridge and cereal - and there is always a good choice of lunchtime and dinner meals.
- Salami, curd cheese, eggs, porridge and bread are combined with any supper left over from the evening before.
- Every morning I make porridge with raisins and maple syrup.
- At one stage they even refused to return their porridge bowls to prison orderlies.
- The inmates said they could not eat thick porridge without milk and asked for bread and butter with tea.
- For breakfast I'll have porridge with soya milk and fruit, sprinkled with some ground cinnamon.
- This is the classic method using oatmeal rather that porridge oats and is my favourite because of its rough texture and lingering flavour.
- There was tea and toast for breakfast and sometimes porridge.
2informal Time spent in prison.
I'm sweating it out doing porridge
Example sentencesExamples
- The Home Office has rejected plans to give lags access to the internet and email while doing porridge.
- Convicted crook Ray Williams is doing even more porridge than insurance spiv Rodney Adler.
- As if his novels weren't enough, he went on to publish his very own prison diary after doing porridge in London's Belmarsh jail.
- Tweed mayor Warren Polglese joined Larry Anthony doing porridge for charity.
- Try as one might, it is hard to think of another jailbird who was allowed to publish a book while still doing porridge.
Synonyms
imprisonment, internment, confinement, detention, custody, captivity, restraint

Derivatives

porridgy

adjective

He was back within five minutes with a bowl of strange porridgy looking stuff in a wooded bowl with a wooden spoon.
Example sentencesExamples
- And here they are, a connoisseur's collection of porridgy soundalike slowies that refute the idea that the Irish have a gift for ballads.
- The fear of running into one of these Cumbrian ale aficionados, supping on mysterious-smelling brews of porridgy so-called real ale amid background tones of chronic bronchitis, keeps many people away.

Origin

Mid 16th century (denoting soup thickened with barley): alteration of pottage. Sense 2 dates from the 1950s.

At first porridge was a soup thickened with barley. The word is a 16th-century alteration of pottage (Middle English), which in turn comes from Old French potage ‘something put in a pot’. The porridge we are familiar with, consisting of oatmeal boiled in water or milk, is mentioned in the 1640s. The informal use of porridge to mean ‘prison’ dates from the 1950s. It probably derives from porridge as a typical prison food, though it might be based on a pun involving two meanings of stir, one as in ‘stir the porridge’ and the other a slang term for ‘prison’, which is perhaps from Romany sturbin ‘jail’. The term was immortalized by the BBC comedy series Porridge of the 1970s, which starred Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, a cynical but good-hearted old convict.

Rhymes

borage, forage, Norwich

Definition of porridge in US English:

porridge

nounˈpɔrɪdʒˈpôrij

A dish consisting of oatmeal or another meal or cereal boiled in water or milk.
Example sentencesExamples
- Aaron's breath steamed in the chill air as he got up from the porridge he was stirring to unlock the prisoner.
- The inmates said they could not eat thick porridge without milk and asked for bread and butter with tea.
- Within hours, Frost had been sheltered in a hut, where he was given milk and porridge and berries and ale.
- A restaurant serving dishes including snail porridge and smoked bacon and egg ice cream has been named the second best in the world.
- I start with porridge, and then mid-morning I have six egg whites on brown toast.
- At one stage they even refused to return their porridge bowls to prison orderlies.
- There was tea and toast for breakfast and sometimes porridge.
- For breakfast I'll have porridge with soya milk and fruit, sprinkled with some ground cinnamon.
- When I taste porridge I remember my early childhood in Edinburgh.
- This is the classic method using oatmeal rather that porridge oats and is my favourite because of its rough texture and lingering flavour.
- Among the dishes made from barley, barley porridge is more delicate than oatmeal porridge, to the point of being rather insipid.
- Another traditional dish is gruel or porridge made with the dried fruit of sago palms.
- A cooked breakfast is always available as well as porridge and cereal - and there is always a good choice of lunchtime and dinner meals.
- I corrected him - we alternate between semolina one day, and mealie meal porridge the next.
- Add the milk and allow the porridge to boil for 30-35 minutes on low heat while stirring occasionally.
- While this brand of porridge contains no added sugar, the manufacturers have managed to slip in skimmed milk and cream powder.
- Salami, curd cheese, eggs, porridge and bread are combined with any supper left over from the evening before.
- They set out as soon as they had finished their breakfast, a quick meal of porridge and plain bread with a scraping of butter.
- Every morning I make porridge with raisins and maple syrup.
- Millet is ground into flour and made into porridge by boiling it in water.

Origin

Mid 16th century (denoting soup thickened with barley): alteration of pottage. Sense 2 dates from the 1950s.

单词	porridge
释义	Definition of porridge in English: porridge noun ˈpɒrɪdʒˈpɔrɪdʒ mass nounBritish 1A dish consisting of oatmeal or another meal or cereal boiled in water or milk. Example sentencesExamples I corrected him - we alternate between semolina one day, and mealie meal porridge the next. Aaron's breath steamed in the chill air as he got up from the porridge he was stirring to unlock the prisoner. Another traditional dish is gruel or porridge made with the dried fruit of sago palms. Add the milk and allow the porridge to boil for 30-35 minutes on low heat while stirring occasionally. I start with porridge, and then mid-morning I have six egg whites on brown toast. Within hours, Frost had been sheltered in a hut, where he was given milk and porridge and berries and ale. Among the dishes made from barley, barley porridge is more delicate than oatmeal porridge, to the point of being rather insipid. They set out as soon as they had finished their breakfast, a quick meal of porridge and plain bread with a scraping of butter. Millet is ground into flour and made into porridge by boiling it in water. A restaurant serving dishes including snail porridge and smoked bacon and egg ice cream has been named the second best in the world. When I taste porridge I remember my early childhood in Edinburgh. While this brand of porridge contains no added sugar, the manufacturers have managed to slip in skimmed milk and cream powder. A cooked breakfast is always available as well as porridge and cereal - and there is always a good choice of lunchtime and dinner meals. Salami, curd cheese, eggs, porridge and bread are combined with any supper left over from the evening before. Every morning I make porridge with raisins and maple syrup. At one stage they even refused to return their porridge bowls to prison orderlies. The inmates said they could not eat thick porridge without milk and asked for bread and butter with tea. For breakfast I'll have porridge with soya milk and fruit, sprinkled with some ground cinnamon. This is the classic method using oatmeal rather that porridge oats and is my favourite because of its rough texture and lingering flavour. There was tea and toast for breakfast and sometimes porridge. 2informal Time spent in prison. I'm sweating it out doing porridge Example sentencesExamples The Home Office has rejected plans to give lags access to the internet and email while doing porridge. Convicted crook Ray Williams is doing even more porridge than insurance spiv Rodney Adler. As if his novels weren't enough, he went on to publish his very own prison diary after doing porridge in London's Belmarsh jail. Tweed mayor Warren Polglese joined Larry Anthony doing porridge for charity. Try as one might, it is hard to think of another jailbird who was allowed to publish a book while still doing porridge. Synonyms imprisonment, internment, confinement, detention, custody, captivity, restraint Derivatives porridgy adjective He was back within five minutes with a bowl of strange porridgy looking stuff in a wooded bowl with a wooden spoon. Example sentencesExamples And here they are, a connoisseur's collection of porridgy soundalike slowies that refute the idea that the Irish have a gift for ballads. The fear of running into one of these Cumbrian ale aficionados, supping on mysterious-smelling brews of porridgy so-called real ale amid background tones of chronic bronchitis, keeps many people away. Origin Mid 16th century (denoting soup thickened with barley): alteration of pottage. Sense 2 dates from the 1950s. At first porridge was a soup thickened with barley. The word is a 16th-century alteration of pottage (Middle English), which in turn comes from Old French potage ‘something put in a pot’. The porridge we are familiar with, consisting of oatmeal boiled in water or milk, is mentioned in the 1640s. The informal use of porridge to mean ‘prison’ dates from the 1950s. It probably derives from porridge as a typical prison food, though it might be based on a pun involving two meanings of stir, one as in ‘stir the porridge’ and the other a slang term for ‘prison’, which is perhaps from Romany sturbin ‘jail’. The term was immortalized by the BBC comedy series Porridge of the 1970s, which starred Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, a cynical but good-hearted old convict. Rhymes borage, forage, Norwich Definition of porridge in US English: porridge nounˈpɔrɪdʒˈpôrij A dish consisting of oatmeal or another meal or cereal boiled in water or milk. Example sentencesExamples Aaron's breath steamed in the chill air as he got up from the porridge he was stirring to unlock the prisoner. The inmates said they could not eat thick porridge without milk and asked for bread and butter with tea. Within hours, Frost had been sheltered in a hut, where he was given milk and porridge and berries and ale. A restaurant serving dishes including snail porridge and smoked bacon and egg ice cream has been named the second best in the world. I start with porridge, and then mid-morning I have six egg whites on brown toast. At one stage they even refused to return their porridge bowls to prison orderlies. There was tea and toast for breakfast and sometimes porridge. For breakfast I'll have porridge with soya milk and fruit, sprinkled with some ground cinnamon. When I taste porridge I remember my early childhood in Edinburgh. This is the classic method using oatmeal rather that porridge oats and is my favourite because of its rough texture and lingering flavour. Among the dishes made from barley, barley porridge is more delicate than oatmeal porridge, to the point of being rather insipid. Another traditional dish is gruel or porridge made with the dried fruit of sago palms. A cooked breakfast is always available as well as porridge and cereal - and there is always a good choice of lunchtime and dinner meals. I corrected him - we alternate between semolina one day, and mealie meal porridge the next. Add the milk and allow the porridge to boil for 30-35 minutes on low heat while stirring occasionally. While this brand of porridge contains no added sugar, the manufacturers have managed to slip in skimmed milk and cream powder. Salami, curd cheese, eggs, porridge and bread are combined with any supper left over from the evening before. They set out as soon as they had finished their breakfast, a quick meal of porridge and plain bread with a scraping of butter. Every morning I make porridge with raisins and maple syrup. Millet is ground into flour and made into porridge by boiling it in water. Origin Mid 16th century (denoting soup thickened with barley): alteration of pottage. Sense 2 dates from the 1950s.
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