ˈpoddish, poddidge Now dial.
Also 6 podech, 6–7 podge, 9 dial. podditch.
[Altered form of potage, pottage, perh. due to some analogy: cf. poddinger.]
= pottage, porridge; now chiefly applied to oatmeal porridge.
| 1528 Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 130 Yf the podech [Wks. 1573 porage] be burned to or the meate over rosted, we saye, the bysshope hath put his fote in the potte [etc.]. a 1590 Marr. Wit & Wisd. (1846) 50 How saist thou, Hodge, What, art thou hungrie? wilt thou eat my podge? 1611 Cotgr., Brouët,..any liquor, podge, or sauce, of the thicknesse, or consistence of that whereof our pruine-tarts are made. c 1746 Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 68 Boh it leet weell atth' Podditch wur naw scawding. 1869 ‘Eavesdropper’ Vill. Life 4 (E.D.D.), I can git poddige for mysel' and t' barns. 1886 Hall Caine Son of Hagar i. vii, I know the way to my mouth with a spoonful of poddish, and that's all. Ibid. ii. xv, May they never lick a lean poddish-stick. |