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porridgy

porridgy adjective: resembling or characteristic of porridge.

Adjective

porridgy (comparative more porridgy, superlative most porridgy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of porridge.
  2. With porridge.
    • A drenched, big-chested girl, her sodden T-shirt clinging to her large breasts, led him forward by a porridgy hand, put him on the stool and sat squadgily on his lap.1968, Thomas Hinde, High, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, published 1969, →LCCN, page 209
    • She wiped a porridgy hand on the back of her jeans, adding another streak to the existing collage.1976, Simon Brett, chapter 3, in So Much Blood (A Charles Paris Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 35

Examples of porridgy in a sentence

  • We were sent to change our aprons and have a break at nine-thirty, by which time I was as hollow as if I’d not eaten a vast porridgy breakfast a couple or so hours ago.2003, Claire Rayner, chapter 14, in How Did I Get Here From There?, London: Virago Press, →ISBN, page 117:
  • Then he smiled a lovely gummy, porridgy smile at her.2006, Imogen Parker, “July 1961”, in The Time of Our Lives, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 232:
  • Porridgy breakfast-time chatter skitters up the stairs.2018, Nancy Tucker, “Abby”, in That Was When People Started to Worry: Windows into Unwell Minds, London: Icon Books Ltd, →ISBN:

Forms of porridgy

comparativemore porridgy
superlativemost porridgy
alternative formporridgey

Origin of porridgy

From porridge + -y.

Questions about porridgy

What does porridgy mean?
Porridgy means resembling or characteristic of porridge.
How do you use porridgy in a sentence?
We were sent to change our aprons and have a break at nine-thirty, by which time I was as hollow as if I’d not eaten a vast porridgy breakfast a couple or so hours ago.
What part of speech is porridgy?
Porridgy is an adjective.

Words near porridgy in the dictionary

  1. porridge-sticks
  2. porridgeless
  3. porridgelike
  4. porridges
  5. porridgey
  6. porridgy
  7. porrige
  8. porriginous
  9. porrigo
  10. porrigos
  11. Porrima

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