- Cooked cereal - Oliver wanted more of this - Thin porridge - Thin soup - A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize,
oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
- Boiled oats - Breakfast dish - Cooked oatmeal - Oatmeal dish - Prison breakfast food - Scottish breakfast dish - 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; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
- A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served
out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal,
sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.