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water-porridge

water-porridge noun: porridge made by cooking rolled oats in water.

Noun

water-porridge (uncountable)

  1. Porridge made by cooking rolled oats in water.
    • At seven they all came in to breakfast, which consisted of one large dish of water-porridge, made of oat-meal, water and a little salt, boiled thick, and poured into a dish.1842, James Wheeler, Manchester
    • Six-, seven- and eight-year-olds, working a sixteen-hour day on a breakfast of water-porridge.2016, John Buxton Hilton, The Quiet Stranger, →ISBN

Questions about water-porridge

What does water-porridge mean?
Water-porridge means porridge made by cooking rolled oats in water.
What part of speech is water-porridge?
Water-porridge is a noun.

Words near water-porridge in the dictionary

  1. water-parting
  2. water-partings
  3. water-permeable
  4. water-plantain
  5. water-plantains
  6. water-porridge
  7. water-powered
  8. water-primrose
  9. water-proof
  10. water-purslan
  11. water-purslane

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