Porringer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.

    "There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer."

  2. 2
    a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) wordnet
  3. 3
    A headdress shaped like such a dish. obsolete

    "Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her pinck'd porrenger fell off her head"

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basinpoddingerpottingertub

Example

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"When the witch saw that the children had escaped her, she was furious, and, hitting the cat with a porringer, she said: "Why did you let the children leave the hut? Why did you not scratch their eyes out?""

Etymology

From Middle English paroger, porrynger, a variant of potager, potynger (“small dish for stew”), apparently from potage + -er, with intrusive n before g as in messenger and passenger. Compare poddinger and later porridge.

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