porridge
Meanings
Plural: porridges
Noun
- soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
- A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- Oat porridge; oatmeal.
- A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- Rice porridge; congee.
- A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- A prison sentence.
- A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 12
porridge is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordporridge is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
porridge is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
porridge is a valid Words With Friends word