porringer

[ pawr-in-jer, por- ]
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noun
  1. a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.

Origin of porringer

1
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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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.

  • 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?

    Ruth Hall | Fanny Fern
  • Joyously she snatched down from the hook her porringer hat; her eyes shone as she thrust the enamel-headed pins through it.

    Gray youth | Oliver Onions
  • Gretel flew to the closet and filled a porringer with the food he liked, and put it upon the floor.

    Hans Brinker | Mary Mapes Dodge
  • At last Gregory ordered the silver porringer which his mother Sylvia had given to him to be handed to the mendicant.

British Dictionary definitions for porringer

porringer

/ (ˈpɒrɪndʒə) /


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

Origin of porringer

1
C16: changed from Middle English potinger, poteger, from Old French potager, from potage soup, contents of a pot; see pottage

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