porridge

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)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!”

   “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.”

2. (British, uncountable, usually)A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
3. (Malaysia, Singapore, uncountable, usually)A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
4. (British, slang, uncountable, usually)A prison sentence.

   “Just do your porridge and keep your head down.”

5. (rare, uncountable, usually)A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.