porringer
a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.
Origin of porringer
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How to use porringer in a sentence
There's a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her Pink'd porringer fell off her head.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson EllacombeWas 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?
Ruth Hall | Fanny FernJoyously she snatched down from the hook her porringer hat; her eyes shone as she thrust the enamel-headed pins through it.
Gray youth | Oliver OnionsGretel flew to the closet and filled a porringer with the food he liked, and put it upon the floor.
Hans Brinker | Mary Mapes DodgeAt last Gregory ordered the silver porringer which his mother Sylvia had given to him to be handed to the mendicant.
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake James
British Dictionary definitions for porringer
/ (ˈpɒrɪndʒə) /
a small dish, often with a handle, for soup, porridge, etc
Origin of porringer
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