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Porridge vs Rubaboo - What's the difference?

porridge | rubaboo |

As nouns the difference between porridge and rubaboo

is that porridge is a type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley while rubaboo is a basic stew or porridge based on peas and/or corn.

porridge

English

(wikipedia 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

    rubaboo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A basic stew or porridge based on peas and/or corn.
  • * 1940 , Mary Jane Carr, Young Mac of Fort Vancouver (page 25)
    • He ate the greasy rubaboo without a grumble, and when there was nothing in the pots for supper, he pulled his belt tighter, and said not a word, though all his growing bones cried out for food.