Synonyms:
porridge
Meaning: soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
Usage examples
Milk Porridge.
"A woman gave me some cold pease porridge, and it burned my mouth."
"Matter!" screamed the Man; "why, your porridge is so hot it has burned me."
The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.
'And as for the porridge and cheese we took, they wouldn't even taste them, so proud have they got', they said.
When she had set our porridge on the table, she stood up, and, with her fists in her sides, addressed my father:
Their food ought, as a general rule, to be given to them pretty thick, as thin porridge does not stay the stomach so well.
Nothing is better than paunch, tripe, or good wholesome horse or cow-flesh, boiled, and the liquor mixed well with oatmeal porridge; the quantity of each about equal.
They were very poor, the children sitting on the floor and eating their porridge together out of a tin pan; but they were happy in the midst of their hard work and plain food.
Rice usually agrees well; fresh fish, sheep's head, tongue, chicken livers, milk or batter puddings are also suitable; and occasionally give oatmeal porridge, alternated with a little scraped raw meat as an especial favour.