porringer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle)

   the child was eating pottage from a porringer

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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

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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