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usually uncountable, plural porridges
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast. quotations
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.
1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
(chiefly Britain) Oatmeal porridge. examples
(Malaysia, Singapore) Rice porridge; congee. examples
(Britain, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.
(rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.