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porage

porage is the obsolete form of porridge.

Meaning of porridge

Noun

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

  1. (usually) A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
    • Eat your porridge while it's hot!
    1. (UK, usually) Oat porridge; oatmeal.
    2. (Malaysia, Singapore, usually) Rice porridge; congee.
  2. (UK, slang, usually) A prison sentence.
    • Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
  3. (rare, usually) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

Forms of porage

pluralporages

Questions about porage

What is porage the obsolete form of?
Porage is the obsolete form of porridge.

Words near porage in the dictionary

  1. Porac
  2. poracanthodid
  3. poracanthodids
  4. poractant
  5. porae
  6. porage
  7. porages
  8. Porajmos
  9. Porakad
  10. Porakkad
  11. poral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porage (page history and authors); porridge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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