porridge
/'pɔridʤ/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A soft, thick, warm food made by boiling ground, crushed, or chopped cereal grains (especially oats) or legumes in water or milk until they absorb the liquid and become soft and mushy.
Examples
- Noun:
- For breakfast, I often eat a bowl of hot porridge.
- Oat porridge is a traditional and healthy meal.
- The patient was given a simple porridge because it was easy to digest.
Advanced Usage
- "to do porridge" (British English slang): to serve a prison sentence.
- He's doing porridge for armed robbery.
- "to keep one's breath to cool one's porridge" (Idiom, old-fashioned): to save one's advice or opinion for oneself, as it will not be heeded by others. (Implies one should mind one's own business.)
Variants and Related Words
- Congee (n): A type of rice porridge common in many Asian cuisines.
- Gruel (n): A thinner, more liquid form of porridge, often associated with basic sustenance or historical poverty.
- Oatmeal (n): Can refer to the raw oats used to make porridge or to the cooked porridge dish itself, especially in North American English.
Synonyms
- Mush (n, chiefly North American): A soft, thick, shapeless mass of food, especially porridge.
- Pap (n, dated or regional): Soft, bland food such as porridge, especially for infants or invalids.
Related Phrases
- Porridge oats (n): The specific type of oats processed for making porridge.
- Porridge pot (n): A pot used for cooking porridge.
Related Idioms
- "Save your breath to cool your porridge": A variant of "keep one's breath to cool one's porridge," meaning don't waste your words giving unwanted advice.
Noun
- soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick