porridge
UK/ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
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porridge noun: a dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
Noun
porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)
- 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!
- 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
- A prison sentence.
- Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
- A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
porridge meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
porridge in Hindi
- breakfast cereal dish — see also oatmeal
- दलिया daliyā
porridge in Tamil
- கூழ், கஞ்சி, பழைய சோறு
porridge in Urdu
- دلیہ
porridge in Bengali
- পোরিজ
More languagesFewer languages
- porridge in Telugu
- అంబలి ambali
- porridge in Malayalam
- കഞ്ഞി kaññi
- porridge in Kannada
- ಗಂಜಿ, ಅಂಬಲಿ, ತುಯ್ಯಲ್, ತುಯ್ಯಲು
- porridge in Punjabi
- ਦਲੀਆ dalīā
- porridge in Odia
- ପୋରିଜ୍
- porridge in Tagalog
- lugaw
- porridge in Arabic
- ثَرِيد ṯarīd, عَصِيدَة ʕaṣīda
- porridge in Malay
- bubur
- porridge in Indonesian
- bubur
- porridge in Persian
- فرنی ferni, حریره harire, هریسه harise
- porridge in Vietnamese
- cháo
Examples of porridge in a sentence
- After weeks of bread and porridge, he longed for something other than stodge.
- The porridge is ready to serve.
- I watched ‘em eat rice porridge with chopsticks, which is definitely pro-level chopstickery.
Forms of porridge
| plural | porridges |
|---|---|
| alternative Scotland | parritch |
| alternative form | porage |
| alternative form | porrige |
Origin of porridge
Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.
Words formed from porridge
- do porridge
- keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
- Laba porridge
- pease porridge
- pine nut porridge
- plain as porridge
- plum-porridge
- porridge belly
- porridge drawer
- porridgeless
- porridgelike
- porridge pot
- porridge-stick
- porridge time
- porridgy
- pumpkin porridge
- red bean porridge
- rice porridge
- save one's breath to cool one's porridge
- Teochew porridge
- water-porridge
Phrases with porridge
Words that rhyme with porridge
Questions about porridge
- What does porridge mean?
- Porridge means a dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- What is porridge in Hindi?
- Porridge in Hindi is दलिया (daliyā). See Porridge meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is porridge?
- Porridge is a noun.
- How do you pronounce porridge?
- Porridge is pronounced /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of porridge?
- The plural of porridge is porridges.
Words near porridge in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: porridge (page history and authors); porridge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); porridge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); porridge (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); porridge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); porridge (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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