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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 meat...
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poddinger
† ˈpoddinger Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 5 puddyngare, 6 podenger, -ynger, (dial. –9) poddinger, 8 podinger. [An altered form of pottinger, perh. associated with podyng, pudding. (Intermediate between pottinger and porringer: cf. poddish, poddidge.)] = pottinger, porringer.1483 Cath. Angl. 293/1 A Puddyn...
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podge
▪ I. podge, n. dial. or colloq. (pɒdʒ) [A parallel form, app. of later origin, of pudge n.] Anything podgy; spec. a short fat man or woman; a short stout thick-set animal. Freq. a plump child. Also, excess weight, fat. (In quot. 1833 applied to an epaulette.)1833 Marryat P. Simple viii, That man wit...
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pobs
pobs, n. pl. dial. (pɒbz) Also pobbies. Occas. in sing. (Eng. Dial. Dict.). A dialect and nursery name for porridge, pap, bread and milk.1828 Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pobs, Poddish, Porridge. 1848 Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton ix, The child..were awake, and crying for its pobbies. 1894 Hall Caine Manxman v...
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pottage
pottage (ˈpɒtɪdʒ) Forms: 3–7 potage, 6– pottage, (6 -adge). [ME. potage, a. F. potage, lit. that which is put in a pot: see pot n.1 and -age. Orig. stressed poˈtage, which was admitted in verse down to Chaucer and Lydgate, but ˈpotage is found in alliterative poems (and prose) in 14th c., and led to...
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porridge
porridge, n. (ˈpɒrɪdʒ) Forms: 6 porage, porradge, 6–7 -edge, 6–8 -ige, 6–8 (9 dial.) -age, 7 -idg, Sc. (9 dial.) -itch, 7– porridge. β. 6 parage, 8 dial. parrage, 9 Sc. parridge, -itch. [Altered form of pottage, poddish (cf. porringer). In sense 1, possibly influenced by porray. In Sc. and Eng. dial...
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paddock
▪ I. paddock, n.1 (ˈpædək) (Also Sc. 9 poddock, 8–9 puddock.) [f. pad n.1 + dimin. suffix -ock.] 1. A frog. (Now Sc. and north. dial.)c 1350 in Rel. Ant. I. 8 Rana, a paddoke. 1388 Wyclif Exod. viii. 2, 3, Y schal smyte alle thi termys with paddoks [1382 frogges]; and the flood schal buyle out paddo...
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