noun. A soft food made by boiling oatmeal or another meal in water or milk.

To take the form of porridge.

To provide with porridge.

noun. A food made by boiling vegetables in water, with or without meat; broth; soup; pottage.

noun. A food made by slowly stirring a meal or flour of oats, dried pease, or wheat-flour, or other grain, into water or milk while boiling till a thickened mass is formed.

noun. 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

noun. A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

noun. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

noun. A prison sentence

noun. soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick

"Sometime before the mid-third century, wheat (triticum) had displaced emmer (far), allowing bread to replace porridge as the staple of the diet, although Greeks continued to refer to Romans as “porridge eaters."

gruel  nettle porridge  oatmeal  

dish  

burgoo  gruel  hasty pudding  oatmeal  

storage  

bacon  biscuit  broth  cereal  cracker  

albumen  batter  bonnyclabber  breakfast food  brochan