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porridge

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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.

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porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

  1. 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[1]:
      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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Borrowed from English porridge.

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porridge m (plural porridges)

  1. porridge

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Unadapted borrowing from English porridge.

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porridge n (uncountable)

  1. porridge

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declension of porridge (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) porridge porridgeul
genitive/dative (unui) porridge porridgeului
vocative porridgeule
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