porridge
/ˈpɒrɪdʒ/noun
mass noun
1
- a dish consisting of oatmeal or another meal or cereal boiled in water or milk麦片粥; 粥。
2
- Brit. informal time spent in prison〈英, 非正式〉关押期, 监禁期：
I'm sweating it out doing porridge.
我咬牙挺过监禁期。
派生词
porridgy
adjective词源
mid 16th cent. (denoting soup thickened with barley)： alteration of POTTAGE. Sense 2 dates from the 1950s.