porringer

[pawr-in-jer, por-]

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noun

a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.

Origin of porringer

1515–25; variant of earlier poddinger, akin to late Middle English potinger, nasalized variant of potager < Middle French. See pottage, -er²

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Related Words for porringer

dish, pot, basin, urn, plate, container, cup, bowl, platter, tray, crock, casserole, vessel, boat, tureen, porringer, saucer, pottery, ceramic, pitcher

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Historical Examples of porringer

Two dogs are running: one after game, and another to a porringer.
Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853
Various
It is derived from the Welsh posned, a porringer or little dish.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
Alice Morse Earle
There was a sort of porringer of farina, and some cakes of the same substance.
The Three Midshipmen
W.H.G. Kingston
I have the old Vanderdecken porringer, if it is the one with the cow on the cover.
Margaret Montfort
Laura E. Richards
I value this porringer more than almost any of my possessions.
Margaret Montfort
Laura E. Richards

British Dictionary definitions for porringer

porringer

noun

a small dish, often with a handle, for soup, porridge, etc

Word Origin for porringer

C16: changed from Middle English potinger, poteger, from Old French potager, from potage soup, contents of a pot; see pottage

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Word Origin and History for porringer

late 15c., alteration of potynger, potager "small dish for stew," from Middle English potage (see pottage) by the same course of changes that produced porridge; and with intrusive -n- by 1530s (cf. passenger).