stirabout

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/ˈstɜːɹəˌbaʊt/

noun

Porridge.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounstirabout (countable and uncountable, plural stirabouts)

plural stirabouts

  1. countableuncountablePorridge.

    He's really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do the dumb-bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout.

    1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 222
    1 more example

    Perhaps that explained the breakfast of oatmeal porridge—piled plates of thick stirabout thickly sprinkled with pale, very sweet powdery brown sugar—and the eggs to follow with rolls and butter.

    1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 92
  2. IrelandcountableuncountableA commotion.

Origin

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Chicago

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