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PORRIDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("porridge" is a kind of...):
dish (a particular item of prepared food)
Meronyms (substance of "porridge"):
oatmeal; rolled oats (meal made from rolled or ground oats)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "porridge"):
hasty pudding (sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water)
gruel (a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal))
burgoo; oatmeal (porridge made of rolled oats)
Context examples:
Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was one of the last to go out, and in passing the tables, I saw one teacher take a basin of the porridge and taste it; she looked at the others; all their countenances expressed displeasure, and one of them, the stout one, whispered—Abominable stuff! How shameful!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I saw a universal manifestation of discontent when the fumes of the repast met the nostrils of those destined to swallow it; from the van of the procession, the tall girls of the first class, rose the whispered words—Disgusting! The porridge is burnt again!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Ravenous, and now very faint, I devoured a spoonful or two of my portion without thinking of its taste; but the first edge of hunger blunted, I perceived I had got in hand a nauseous mess; burnt porridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes; famine itself soon sickens over it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
