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money, usually unexpected gain and extra to an agreed or predicted payment, typically not realised by the payer. Earlier English spelling was bunts or bunse, dating from the late 1700s or early 1800s (Cassells and Partridge). Origins are not certain. Bunts also used to refer to unwanted or unaccounted-for goods sold for a crafty gain by workers, and activity typically hidden from the business owner. Suggestions of origin include a supposed cockney rhyming slang shortening of bunsen burner (
A seaman's knife with a broad flat blade approximately five inches long.
Noun. A Scottish person. Offens.
a tin container for holding porridge
oatmeal porridge
the sharpest cutting knife in the kitchen
Burgoo was th century naval slang for a thick porridge.
- Doing porridge means to serve time in prison. There was also a comedy TV series called Porridge about a prisoner starring Ronnie Barker of The Two Ronnies fame.
Porridge is slang for a term in prison.
doing porridge is to serve time in prison
tickey/ticky/tickie/tiki/tikki/tikkie
ticky or tickey was an old pre-decimal British silver threepenny piece (3d, equating loosely to 1¼p). The tickey slang was in use in 1950s UK (in Birmingham for example, thanks M Bramich), although the slang is more popular in South Africa, from which the British usage seems derived. In South Africa the various spellings refer to a SA threepenny piece, and now the equivalent SA post-decimalisation 2½ cents coin. South African tickey and variations - also meaning 'small' - are first recorded in the 19th century from uncertain roots (according to Partridge and Cassells) - take your pick: African distorted interpretation of 'ticket' or 'threepenny'; from Romany tikeno and tikno (meaning small); from Dutch stukje (meaning a little bit); from Hindustani taka (a stamped silver coin); and/or from early Portuguese 'pataca' and French 'patac' (meaning what?.. Partridge doesn't say).
porridge
Noun. A period spent in prison. E.g."So what's happened in the outside world since I've been doing my porridge?"
Porridge wog is English slang for a Scottish person.
Oatmeal. e.g. "Mum can you please make us some porridge for brekkie"
Life (term). e's doing a stay in the porridge
A knife from ten to fifteen inches long and about two inches broad, so named after its inventor, James Bowie.
Doing porridge means to serve time in prison. There was also a comedy TV series called Porridge about a prisoner starring Ronnie Barker of The Two Ronnies fame.
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A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
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A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
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Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.
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A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.
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Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera.
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A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.
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Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal.
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A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.
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A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
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The Himalayan now partridge.
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Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.
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The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus).
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A porringer.
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The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.
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A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
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The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
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Porridge.
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A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.
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A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.
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