PORRIDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porridge mean? 

• PORRIDGE (noun)
  The noun PORRIDGE has 1 sense:

1. soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick

  Familiarity information: PORRIDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORRIDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("porridge" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Meronyms (substance of "porridge"):

oatmeal; rolled oats (meal made from rolled or ground oats)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "porridge"):

hasty pudding (sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water)

gruel (a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal))

burgoo; oatmeal (porridge made of rolled oats)

 Context examples 

"Mother!" she exclaimed, "there is a woman wants me to give her these porridge."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At Lyndenhurst; but alas! my money is at an end, and I could but get a dish of bran-porridge from the nunnery.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Lion ate some of the porridge, but did not care for it, saying it was made from oats and oats were food for horses, not for lions.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy, “There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There was sand in our eyes, sand in our teeth, sand in our suppers, sand dancing in the spring at the bottom of the kettle, for all the world like porridge beginning to boil.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His life is a mystery to the partner of his joys and sorrows—I again allude to his wife—and if I should assure you that beyond knowing that it is passed from morning to night at the office, I now know less of it than I do of the man in the south, connected with whose mouth the thoughtless children repeat an idle tale respecting cold plum porridge, I should adopt a popular fallacy to express an actual fact.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a mess of cold porridge into a pig trough.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered around the table and Dorothy ate some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread, and enjoyed her meal.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Oh, madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)