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porridge-stick

porridge-stick noun: a wooden stick used to stir porridge when cooking.

Noun

porridge-stick (plural porridge-sticks)

  1. A wooden stick used to stir porridge when cooking.
    • When they came past the kitchen, the door was open and the cook was just boiling porridge, but when she saw Hans and his train after him, she rushed out of the door with the porridge-stick in one hand and a big ladle full of boiling porridge in the other, and she laughed till her sides shook; but...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 275
    Synonyms:
    spurtle

Synonyms of porridge-stick

Forms of porridge-stick

pluralporridge-sticks

Questions about porridge-stick

What does porridge-stick mean?
Porridge-stick means a wooden stick used to stir porridge when cooking.
What part of speech is porridge-stick?
Porridge-stick is a noun.
What is the plural of porridge-stick?
The plural of porridge-stick is porridge-sticks.

Words near porridge-stick in the dictionary

  1. porridge drawer
  2. porridge drawers
  3. porridge pot
  4. porridge pots
  5. porridge time
  6. porridge-stick
  7. porridge-sticks
  8. porridgeless
  9. porridgelike
  10. porridges
  11. porridgey

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