parritch

parritch (countable and uncountable, plural parritches)

1. (Scotland) Porridge.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped:

     'It would be strange if I didnae,' he returned, 'for he was my born brother; and little as ye seem to like either me or my house, or my good parritch, I'm your born uncle, Davie, my man, and you my born nephew.

   • 1895, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Mystery of Cloomber, page 85:

     " It's vera different frae my last place," says I, discontented-like. And the words were true eneugh, for auld Fairmer Scott only gave me a pund a month and parritch twice a day.

   • 1977, David Garnett, Up she rises, page 171:

     Kirstie gives milk for Isabella and my parritches.

   • 2015, Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, →ISBN, page 200:

     And here was me thinkin' as I should add a bit o' ginger and brimstone to your parritch, young man, so as to bring ye up to scratch!

• phratric

parritch (uncountable)

1. porridge