Porridge definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary POR'RIDGE,n. [L. farrago ... is usually called in America, broth or soup, but not porridge. With us, porridge is a mixture of meal or flour, boiled with water ... Etymology: 16th c.: alt. of POTTAGE Webster's 1913 Dictionary Porridge Por"ridge, n. [Probably corrupted fr. pottage; perh. influenced by ... in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Porridge is ...
... plant. [Not used.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: porridge made of rolled oats [syn: oatmeal, burgoo] 2: meal made ... 1. a. meal made from oats b. rolled oats 2. porridge made from ground or rolled oats Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 meal made from ground oats used esp. in porridge and oatcakes. 2 a greyish-fawn colour flecked with brown ... hot, especially for breakfast. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use porridge) = porridge Moby Thesaurus breakfast food, cereal, cornflakes, dry cereal, farina, frumenty ... hasty pudding, hominy grits, hot cereal, kasha, loblolly, millet, mush, porridge, puffed rice, puffed wheat, rolled oats, wheatflakes
... maiz. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal) Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Middle ... English gr?t grout Date: 14th century 1. a thin porridge 2. [from to get one's gruel to accept punishment ... of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Gruel is a food made by ... water, millet, molasses, mucilage, mucus, mush, oatmeal, pap, paper, paste, porridge, pudding, puffed rice, puffed wheat, pulp, puree, putty, rail, rake ...
... n. 1. A small metal vessel in which children eat porridge or milk, or used in the nursery for warming liquors ... pottanger, for pottager; cf. F. potager a soup basin. See Porridge.] A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat ... silver porringer. --Wordsworth. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Porridge dish.
... Medieval Latin, literally, pap, from Latin, plural of pult-, puls porridge Date: 15th century a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated ... palliate, paper pulp, paste, physic, pith, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, porridge, pour balm into, pour oil on, pudding, pulp, pulp lead ...
... n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See Pot, and cf. Porridge, Porringer.] A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or ... both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] --Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and ...
... or plural in construction Etymology: Scottish Gaelic słghan Date: 1582 porridge from oat husks and siftings Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sowens ... Synonyms n. pl. [Scotch.] [Written also Sowins, Sewings, and Sowans.] Porridge (made of the dust of oatmeal), flummery.
... n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See Pot, and cf. Porridge, Porringer.] A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or ... both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] --Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and ...
... Welsh llymru Date: 1623 1. a. a soft jelly or porridge made with flour or meal b. any of several sweet ... Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Sowens, sowins or sowans, porridge (made of the dust of oatmeal). 2. Trash, frivolity, chaff ...