stirabout

Definitions

Examples

• Sometimes they are pounded when quite dry into a sort of meal, and with water added to them, are made into a kind of stirabout.

• In Derry porridge or stirabout always takes the plural: 'Have you dished them yet?'

• I went and broke the sad news to Patsey Mike, who was mixing stirabout at the time.

• Oatmeal porridge or stirabout was in very general use, especially for children.

• Thomas Granahan, the grandfather, is seated at fire place and has evidently just finished his stirabout.