skilly

• Тонкая каша или суп, обычно приготовленные из овсянки и воды, приправленные мясом.

A thin porridge or soup, typically made from oatmeal and water and flavored with meat.

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1. Thin porridge or soupC2informalbritish

   A watery, often unappetizing soup or porridge, typically made from oatmeal and water, sometimes flavored with meat. Historically associated with prisons, workhouses, and poorhouses.

   Жидкая каша или похлёбка

   • The prisoners were fed only a bowl of skilly each day.
   • He remembered the thin, tasteless skilly from his time in the workhouse.
   • The recipe for skilly was simple: oatmeal, water, and a scrap of meat for flavor.

   Synonymsbrothgruelporridgepottagesoup