porritch

It's geddin 'lat, an' my porritch is waitin 'for me at wom'. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'Hoo thinks hersel' aboon porritch, does yon lot. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'Dun yo' think hoo can mak 'porritch?' sneered Amos to the woman who passed the unkindly remark.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

There's no 'muckle hertnin' for a woman when she's left to trauchle day oot day in wi 'seven litlans, an' a thrawn-gabbit footer o 'a man juist comin' in at diet times, rennyin 'aboot first ae thing an' syne anither, threapin 'that his porritch is no' half boiled, simmerin 'an' winterin 'aboot haen to wait a meenit or twa for his denner or his tea.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

On Monday's milk porritch, blue and tasteless, and the pease-soup of Saturday, coarse and choking, were enriched for him with

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

'Hoo's a lady, whatever else hoo is,' said an old woman; 'an' if hoo's aboon porritch, hoo's none aboon kissin 'a poor mon's child.'

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

And I needed new flannelette for the Twins 'nighties, and a reefer for little Dinky-Dunk, and an aluminum double-boiler that didn't leak for me maun's porritch.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

For example, look at the hardy young Scot who thrives and grows hearty and strong on his oatmeal "porritch."

Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889

But they 're no better nor porritch, Robert, when they're looked up.'

Th' Barrel Organ Edwin Waugh 1853

'Didto ever yer ov onybody layin' the devil wi 'meighl-porritch?' An 'then he poo'd th' blanket o'er his yed again.

Th' Barrel Organ Edwin Waugh 1853