(archaic or historical) A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. / (archaic) An oatmeal porridge.

plural of pottage

plural of pottager

Alternative form of potager (“porringer; kind of cup or dish”) / (obsolete) An assistant cook who made soups or stews.

(idiomatic) Something of trivial value, especially of immediate value.

plural of mess of pottage

Synonym of pease pudding.

To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value for something of very low, but immediate value.