Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick soup or stew of vegetables and sometimes meat.
- noun Archaic Porridge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dish consisting of meat boiled to softness in water, usually with vegetables; meat-broth; soup.
- noun Oatmeal or other porridge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thick
soup orstew .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
- noun thick (often creamy) soup
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And, when you come to think of it, Jacob's mess of pottage is the most expensive dish on record.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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That's a popular delicacy, much more appealing to some tastes than "pottage" - especially when it is said to be a "mess".
Archive 2009-03-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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That's a popular delicacy, much more appealing to some tastes than "pottage" - especially when it is said to be a "mess".
Clearing Up The Mess (Of Pottage) James F. McGrath 2009
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-- French Tr. [34] Literally the passage would run, "Feed me, I pray thee, with that red, that read," the word pottage being understood. "the repetition of the epithet, and the omission of the substantive, indicated the extreme haste and eagerness of the asker.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Esau probably thought the pottage was a good exchange, too, but look how that turned out.
"Joe D'oh Puts O in 'Crisis' Mode." Ann Althouse 2008
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Here the common mode of using it is to cut it in small squares, and boil it in the mandioc pottage, which is the principal food of the poorer inhabitants and the slaves.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham
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But beware of insulting the mess of pottage, which is as respectable as when newly out of the pot.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 Various 1841
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[01: 36] matociquala: If it wasn't stew, it would just be pottage, which is stew with oats in it.
i should have read your letters kenscholes 2009
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Culinary education nowadays tells that me that peasants ate beer, beans, peas and "pottage" which was basically a soup made of everything you have.
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Culinary education nowadays tells that me that peasants ate beer, beans, peas and "pottage" which was basically a soup made of everything you have.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
sionnach commented on the word pottage
Don't sell your birthright on eBay to some dude called Jacob, just for a mess of pottage.
January 18, 2008
bilby commented on the word pottage
Nay.
October 6, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word pottage
Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news, nor pottage. I can get politics, and chat, and neighbourly conveniences from cheaper companions. Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic, pure, universal, and great as nature itself?
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship"
June 6, 2009