porridge
/ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/ noun B1- 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!
- Rice porridge; congee.
Plural porridges
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The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered around the table and Dorothy ate some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread, and enjoyed her meal.
The Lion ate some of the porridge, but did not care for it, saying it was made from oats and oats were food for horses, not for lions.
You know I never use it except for the hired man’s porridge or black fruit cake.
Darcy, “There is a very fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with--‘Keep your breath to cool your porridge,’--and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”
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