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porringer

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Definition of porringer

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noun

  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.”
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noun

  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. (obsolete)A headdress shaped like such a dish.
    “Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her pinck'd porrenger fell off her head”

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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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