porringer

[ pawr-in-jer, por- ]

noun

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

porringer

/ ˈpɒrɪndʒə /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of porringer¹

1515–25; variant of earlier poddinger, akin to late Middle English potinger, nasalized variant of potager < Middle French. See pottage, -er ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of porringer¹

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

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.

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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?

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Joyously she snatched down from the hook her porringer hat; her eyes shone as she thrust the enamel-headed pins through it.

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Gretel flew to the closet and filled a porringer with the food he liked, and put it upon the floor.

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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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Related Words

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