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Best of all--no vampires, no "parritch," or world domination in sight.
HH Com 196 (192) Miss Snark 2006
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Best of all--no vampires, no "parritch," or world domination in sight.
HH Com 196 (192) Miss Snark 2006
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'He was no his bairn,' I retorted, hastily finishing off my "parritch" with a gulp.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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TREASURY as a remedy for the grievances of Glasgow's financiers are not, as you might suppose, a synonym for forcible feeding; nor have they anything to do with the substitutes for "parritch" to which, as
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919 Various
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MILLAR, whose desire to deprive his countrymen of their national beverage is only equalled by his zeal on behalf of their national food, rejoiced in the prospect that fewer oats for high-mettled racers would mean more "parritch" for humble constituents.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various
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Living on "parritch," as he tells Miss Baillie (for his national spirit rejected arrowroot), Scott had yet energy enough to plan a dramatic piece for Terry, "The Doom of Devorgoil."
Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Living on "parritch," as he tells Miss Baillie (for his national spirit rejected arrowroot), Scott had yet energy enough to plan a dramatic piece for Terry, "The Doom of Devorgoil."
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"They're fine halesome food – they're grand food, parritch," he pronounces to his nephew David.
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Dougal advised me finally to save my breath to cool my parritch with, and after that we rode in silence.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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We'd get a bit of parritch now and then from a crofter's cottage, but those folk are so poor themselves there's seldom anything to spare.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
tonka commented on the word parritch
Parritch means "porridge" in Scots. I first encountered this word in "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson. See http://www.mudcat.org/scots/index.cfm?start_letter=P
March 27, 2007