porridge

• parritch (Scotland)
• porage, porrige (both obsolete)

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

1. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk 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.

   1. (chiefly British) Oatmeal porridge.
   2. (Malaysia, Singapore) Rice porridge; congee.
2. (British, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.

   Just do your porridge and keep your head down.

3. (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

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• Périgord

Borrowed from English porridge.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ʁidʒ/

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porridge m (plural porridges)

1. porridge

• “porridge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English porridge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.rid͡ʒ/

porridge n (uncountable)

1. porridge