porridge
noun
[ ˈpɒrɪdʒ ]
• a dish consisting of oatmeal or another meal or cereal boiled in water or milk.
• time spent in prison.
• "I'm sweating it out doing porridge"
Origin:
mid 16th century (denoting soup thickened with barley): alteration of pottage. Sense 2 dates from the 1950s.
