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- adjective Resembling
porridge .
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Examples
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The standard model of the brain was a stable, porridgy gray mass that couldn't heal itself or even grow new brain cells.
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And so, scraps of dry, stale bread would be revived from their petrified state into a porridgy soup or salad of sorts.
Summer, Tuscan style 2009
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A minute of porridgy drama later, we find out Adam was his grandfather.
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So, add enough stock to make a soft porridgy consistency.
Archive 2007-11-01 Mercedes 2007
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So, add enough stock to make a soft porridgy consistency.
Lida Lee's Cornbread Dressing Mercedes 2007
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It meant two days 'marching through roads and fields ankle deep in clinging, porridgy mud, but we were all glad enough to put up with any hardship so long as we got away from the strain of flying shells and bullets.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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The whole should be a thick porridgy mass; if too dry add a little milk.
Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes
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The use of sauces is thus seen to be an aid to help down plain and wholesome food, and being fluid they cause the food to be more thoroughly broken up and made into a porridgy mass before it is swallowed.
Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes
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What with the shrinkage and the redecoration (for now, of course, it had a porridgy modern wallpaper with an orange frieze) she would not have known it was the same room, if it hadn't been for the fireplace.
Mrs. Miniver 1939
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The late Pete Postlethwaite fitted right into the American picture of the classic British face - porridgy skin, receding hairline, with cheekbones that looked like a pair of gobstoppers that had migrated north.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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