porridge
名词 n.
英 /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
美 /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/|/ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
— Eat your porridge while it's hot!
- A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.; Oat porridge; oatmeal.
- A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.; Rice porridge; congee.
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A prison sentence.
— Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
- A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
词汇关系
衍生词
do porridge
keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
Laba porridge
pease porridge
pine nut porridge
plain as porridge
plum-porridge
porridge belly
porridge drawer
porridgeless
porridgelike
porridge pot
porridge-stick
porridge time
porridgy
pumpkin porridge
red bean porridge
rice porridge
save one's breath to cool one's porridge
Teochew porridge
water-porridge
词源
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.
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