parritch

English

Noun

parritch (countable and uncountable, plural parritches)

  1. (Scotland) Porridge.
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped:
      'It would be strange if I didnae,' he returned, 'for he was my born brother; and little as ye seem to like either me or my house, or my good parritch, I'm your born uncle, Davie, my man, and you my born nephew.
    • 1895, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Mystery of Cloomber, page 85:
      " It's vera different frae my last place," says I, discontented-like. And the words were true eneugh, for auld Fairmer Scott only gave me a pund a month and parritch twice a day.
    • 1977, David Garnett, Up she rises, page 171:
      Kirstie gives milk for Isabella and my parritches.
    • 2015, Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, →ISBN, page 200:
      And here was me thinkin' as I should add a bit o' ginger and brimstone to your parritch, young man, so as to bring ye up to scratch!

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Scots

Noun

parritch (uncountable)

  1. porridge
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