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porridge-sticks

porridge-sticks is the plural of porridge-stick.

Meaning of porridge-stick

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

Questions about porridge-sticks

What is porridge-sticks the plural of?
Porridge-sticks is the plural of porridge-stick.

Words near porridge-sticks in the dictionary

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

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