porridge

• parritch (Scotland)
• porage
• porrige

Porridge.

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒɹɪdʒ/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹɪdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːrɪdʒ

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

1. A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
2. (chiefly Britain) A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

   Eat your porridge while it's hot!

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.

3. (British slang) A prison sentence.

   Just do your porridge and keep your head down.

• congee
• gruel
• oatmeal
• stiff porridge

• Périgord