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porridgy en · ADJ

Etymology

From porridge + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of porridge.
2. With porridge.
   • We were sent to change our aprons and have a break at nine-thirty, by which time I was as hollow as if I’d not eaten a vast porridgy breakfast a couple or so hours ago. 2003, Claire Rayner, chapter 14, in How Did I Get Here From There?, London: Virago Press, →ISBN, page 117:
   • Trying to get some porridge inside rather than outside of Jamie – an endeavour in which the little boy, as usual, was proving to be no help at all – Ellie grimaced. […] Jamie beamed a porridgy smile when he saw his mother. 2003, Maggie Craig, chapter 25, in A Star to Steer By, London: Headline Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 218:
   • Porridgy breakfast-time chatter skitters up the stairs. 2018, Nancy Tucker, “Abby”, in That Was When People Started to Worry: Windows into Unwell Minds, London: Icon Books Ltd, →ISBN:
   • She scooped a spoonful of sieved porridge from the nursery bowl, and offered it to baby Adrian, who was sitting in his high chair next to her. His mouth made a very serious and deliberate O as he took the food and swilled it round his mouth. Then he smiled a lovely gummy, porridgy smile at her. 2006, Imogen Parker, “July 1961”, in The Time of Our Lives, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 232:
   • She wiped a porridgy hand on the back of her jeans, adding another streak to the existing collage. 1976, Simon Brett, chapter 3, in So Much Blood (A Charles Paris Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 35:
   • A drenched, big-chested girl, her sodden T-shirt clinging to her large breasts, led him forward by a porridgy hand, put him on the stool and sat squadgily on his lap. 1968, Thomas Hinde, High, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, published 1969, →LCCN, page 209:

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