Definitions
Soft hot food made by boiling oats or meal in liquid.
Word origin
Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.
Used in a sentence
“Eat your porridge while it's hot!”
“There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.”
“Just do your porridge and keep your head down.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Hot oat mush”8 letters
02“Hot oat cereal”8 letters
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