Other forms: porridges
Porridge is a warm soft breakfast of oats cooked in milk or water. A bowl of porridge, make porridge, porridge with honey.
Scottish tradition says salt rather than sugar and a spurtle rather than a spoon, and the argument is genuinely felt. In British slang, doing porridge means serving a prison sentence, from the food once served there. The word is a variant of pottage.
1nounporridgeA breakfast of oats cooked in milk or water.
“On cold mornings, I eat a bowl of hot porridge with honey.”
porridge is a food.
Also accepted in games: oatmeal
A variant of pottage, a thick soup, from Old French potage, from pot. The prison sense came from prison food.
Built from
Variant of a doublet of pottage, influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA