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Meaning of porridgy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of porridge.
  2. With porridge.

Examples

“A drenched, big-chested girl, her sodden T-shirt clinging to her large breasts, led him forward by a porridgy hand, put him on the stool and sat squadgily on his lap.”
“She wiped a porridgy hand on the back of her jeans, adding another streak to the existing collage.”
“Trying to get some porridge inside rather than outside of Jamie – an endeavour in which the little boy, as usual, was proving to be no help at all – Ellie grimaced. […] Jamie beamed a porridgy smile when he saw his mother.”
“We were sent to change our aprons and have a break at nine-thirty, by which time I was as hollow as if I’d not eaten a vast porridgy breakfast a couple or so hours ago.”
“She scooped a spoonful of sieved porridge from the nursery bowl, and offered it to baby Adrian, who was sitting in his high chair next to her. His mouth made a very serious and deliberate O as he took the food and swilled it round his mouth. Then he smiled a lovely gummy, porridgy smile at her.”
“Porridgy breakfast-time chatter skitters up the stairs.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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