Porridge : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Porridge	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Porridge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
porridge n soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Porridge \Por"ridge\, n. [Probably corrupted fr. pottage; perh. influenced by OE. porree a kind of pottage, OF. porr[82]e, fr. L. porrum, porrus, leek. See {Pottage}, and cf. {Porringer}.] A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.