Sacha wrote:
On 1/7/06 23:30, in article
, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:
snip
"give
[someone] his oatmeal" was slang for "punish": could be clues.
Hence 'Porridge', perhaps? ;-)
I suppose so. Irritatingly," porridge" isn't in Partridge's Historical
Slang (of "stir", which is of Romany origin, he says "much nonsense has
been written about this word", which I suppose must be a swipe at those
who connect "stir" and "porridge"!)
--
Mike.