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porringer
[ pawr-in-jer, por- ]
noun
- a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.
porringer
/ ˈpɒrɪndʒə /
noun
- a small dish, often with a handle, for soup, porridge, etc
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Origin of porringer1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of porringer1
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Example Sentences
There's a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her Pink'd porringer fell off her head.
Was he doomed to sit up all night, tired as he was, with Tommy in one hand, and a spoon and pewter porringer in the other?
Joyously she snatched down from the hook her porringer hat; her eyes shone as she thrust the enamel-headed pins through it.
Gretel flew to the closet and filled a porringer with the food he liked, and put it upon the floor.
At last Gregory ordered the silver porringer which his mother Sylvia had given to him to be handed to the mendicant.
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