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stirabout
stirabout (ˈstɜːrəbaʊt) Also 9 stirrabout. [f. verbal phrase stir about: see stir v. and about adv.] 1. a. Porridge made by stirring oatmeal (or occas. some other meal) in boiling water or milk. (Originally Anglo-Irish.)1682 Piers Descr. West-Meath (1770) 121 They..have to their meal one formal dish...
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Gustavus Hume
He liked to prescribe oatmeal porridge and as a result received the nickname "Stirabout Gusty" which was referred to in William Norcott's The Metropolis
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gurrah
▪ I. ‖ gurrah1 Anglo-Indian. (ˈgʌrə) [Hindi gāṛhā.] A kind of plain coarse India muslin.1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xxxii. 393 These manufactories are of..Silk, and Silk and Cotton Romals, Gurrahs and Lungies. 1858 in Simmonds Dict. Trade.▪ II. gurrah2 (ˈgʌrə) Also gurah. [Hind. ghaṛa, Skr....
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John D. Sheridan
Bright Intervals
Joking Apart
Include Me Out
It Stance to Reason (The Intelligent Rabbit's Guide to Golf)
Poetry
Joe's no Saint and Other Poems
Stirabout
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London Burkers
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John Bishop, together with Thomas Williams, Michael Shields, a Covent Garden porter, and James May, an unemployed butcher, also known as Jack Stirabout
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kasha
‖ kasha1 (ˈkæʃə) Also casha. [Russ.] 1. A gruel or porridge made from cooked buckwheat or other meals or cereals.1808 M. Wilmot Jrnl. 5 July in Russ. Jrnls. (1934) iii. 356 Their Casha is very like Stirabout, & this is a favourite dish. 1903 [see blintze]. 1958 Hayward & Harari tr. Pasternak's Dr. Z...
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potstick
potstick Now only dial. (ˈpɒtstɪk) Forms: see pot n.1 and stick n.; also 5 pos(s)tyke, postyk(ke. [f. pot n.1 + stick n.] A stick for stirring porridge or anything cooked in a pot. Also, a stick used for moving washing about in a pot.c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xii, Stere it alle togyders ...
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Oatmeal
Similarly, in 1891, district asylum inmates got of meal in stirabout every morning. Similarly, in the 20th century, prisoners got between and of stirabout for breakfast in many Irish jails.
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Porridge
Stirabout – Irish porridge, traditionally made by stirring oats into boiling water
Terci de ovăz, traditional oatmeal in Romania.
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stir
▪ I. stir, n.1 (stɜː(r)) Forms: see stir v. [f. the verb. ONorthumbrian had ᵹestir (only once, glossing actio in Rit. Dunelm. 187). The cognate ON. styr-r masc. (see stir v.) may possibly be in part the source of the Sc. and northern uses, which (in the β forms) are recorded from the 14th c.] The ac...
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Mount Melleray Abbey
of famine refugees that waited for food at the entrance to the monastery: "Entrance; squalid hordes of beggars, sit waiting" and "nasty tubs of cold stirabout
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Columbia Road Flower Market
Together with Michael Shields, a Covent Garden porter, and James May, also known as Jack Stirabout and Black Eyed Jack, they formed a notorious gang of
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List of porridges
oats, is ground oat groats (i.e., grains, as in oat-meal, cf. cornmeal, peasemeal, etc.), or a porridge made from oats (also called oatmeal cereal or stirabout
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