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Porridge vs Congee - What's the difference?

porridge | congee |

As nouns the difference between porridge and congee

is that porridge is a type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley while congee is formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking.

porridge

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
  • A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
  • Eat your porridge while it's hot!
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  • (British slang) A prison sentence.
  • Just do your porridge and keep your head down.

    See also

    * gruel * oatmeal

    congee

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * conge *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • So courteous conge both did giue and take, / With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
  • (archaic) A bow.
  • *, II.17:
  • As salutations, reverences, or conges , by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous.
  • * 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
  • “My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace,” answered Isaac, with a low congee , nothing embarrassed by the Prince’s salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), perhaps via Portuguese.(ta)

    Alternative forms

    * conjee

    Noun

    (wikipedia congee) (en-noun)
  • A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
  • Derived terms
    * rice congee
    Synonyms
    * jook * juk
    See also
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