Meaning
A thick, smooth breakfast porridge made from cornmeal cooked slowly with water and coconut or condensed milk, sweetened and spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla — stirred hard to keep it lump-free. Warming, filling, and cheap, cornmeal porridge is one of the classic Jamaican morning porridges, sending children off to school with a full belly.
Examples
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Mumma mek cornmeal porridge fi breakfast.
Mum made cornmeal porridge for breakfast.
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Keep stir di cornmeal porridge so it nuh lump.
Keep stirring the cornmeal porridge so it doesn't lump.
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Nutmeg an condense milk sweeten di porridge.
Nutmeg and condensed milk sweeten the porridge.
Origin
From 'cornmeal' + 'porridge'; a classic breakfast porridge. See [[cornmeal]], [[hominy-corn]].
How it’s used
A thick spiced cornmeal breakfast porridge. See [[cornmeal]], [[hominy-corn]], [[green-banana-porridge]].