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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oatmeal
noun
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▪ For her Christmas dinner Ellen brought her a bowl of oatmeal gruel.
▪ He was of medium height and was wearing a baggy and very creased cotton suit the colour of oatmeal.
▪ Like cream on top of oatmeal, these layers have resisted homogenization throughout their long history.
▪ Serve in whiskey tumblers, topped with remaining oatmeal.
▪ She ate something, gave Ollie some oatmeal and softened toast, cleaned him up, washed her face and hands.
▪ Standing, I sample a bowl of oatmeal.
▪ The grits are good too, as mild as oatmeal, but buttery, and full of body.
▪ The walls were stippled with some kind of wartime stucco that had the texture of dried oatmeal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oatmeal

Oatmeal \Oat"meal`\, n.

  1. Meal made of oats.
    --Gay.

  2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oatmeal

late 14c., from oat + Middle English mele (see meal (n.2)).

Wiktionary
oatmeal

a. Of a light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal n. meal made from rolled or round oats.

WordNet
oatmeal
  1. n. porridge made of rolled oats [syn: burgoo]

  2. meal made from rolled or ground oats [syn: rolled oats]

Wikipedia
Oatmeal

Oatmeal is made of oat groats (i.e. grains) that have either been ground, crushed, steel-cut, or rolled. Ground oats are also called "white oats". Steel-cut oats are known as "coarse oatmeal" or "Irish oatmeal" or "pinhead oats". The term "oatmeal" is also used in the U.S. and parts of Canada to mean oat porridge.

Oatmeal (disambiguation)

Oatmeal is ground oat groats. It may also refer to:

  • Oatmeal, Texas, an unincorporated community in Texas
  • The Oatmeal, a website featuring comics

Usage examples of "oatmeal".

Rice, Currants, Sugar, Prunes, Cynamon, Ginger, Pepper, Cloves, Green Ginger, Oil, Butter, Holland cheese or old Cheese, Wine-Vinegar, Canarie-Sack, Aqua-vitae, the best Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.

Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.

Oatmeal comes the nearest to wheat in the amount of nitrogen or protein, but the digestible part of this is much smaller than in wheat, and the indigestible portion is decidedly irritating to the bowels, so that if used in excess of about one-fifth of our total starch-food required, it is likely to upset the digestion.

Then he bent down and began collecting the gellies arrayed in every color across her oatmeal carpet.

The public funds were fourpence three farthing a day for each pauper out of which Jem Hocking managed to purloin twopence, while the rest was grudgingly spent on stale bread, onions, barley and oatmeal.

Oatmeal Cookies, Karo Syrup Easy Caramel Popcorn, or any of the five pecan pies on various other packages.

By the time he came upstairs, dressed in a pair of loose cotton pants that tied at the waist, his bare chest beaded with sweat, his hair hanging damp and loose around his shoulders, she had a pot of oatmeal waiting for them and had made a protein shake for him and a hot latte for herself.

With a little oatmeal for food, and a little sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other, Sawney ran away to his flinty hills, sung his psalm out of tune his own way, and listened to his sermon of two hours long, amid the rough and imposing melancholy of the tallest thistles.

She was easing out of the tweedy coat, revealing a hand-knitted oatmeal cardigan and twin strands of pearls.

Atholl Brose is a lovely pudding of oatmeal, honey, cream, and whiskey.

This being the end of summer but not yet harvest time, the pantry shelves were nowhere near the height of what I hoped would be their autumn bounty, but still there were cheeses on the shelf, a huge stoneware crock of salted fish on the floor, and sacks of flour, corn, rice, beans, barley, and oatmeal.

The peristaltic pulse of the thick stuff always made Cari think of quicksand, of sand-colored octopi creeping along an ocean floor, of week-old oatmeal.

Jimmy Dale was as handsome as Apollo, and Potch was a dish of oatmeal.

She burned the stirabout in its iron pot and the cabin reeked of scorched oatmeal.

I have been lying down supperless on the sod, after marching and fighting the whole day, I have longed for a bowl of porridge and a platter well filled with oatmeal cakes.