Water-porridge
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Water-porridge is a noun meaning Porridge made by cooking rolled oats in water.
Meaning
Porridge made by cooking rolled oats in water.
Example Sentences
Six-, seven- and eight-year-olds, working a sixteen-hour day on a breakfast of water-porridge.
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.
He looked back upon his workhouse life with a sickening yearning, and when he remembered the regular and abundant meals of the House, his gorge rose at the ever-recurring surfeit of water-porridge to breakfast, water-porridge to dinner, water-porridge to supper, and water-porridge between meals.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include porridge, oatmeal, porage, mush, porrige, plum-porridge.
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