porringer

Definition

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

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.

Example Sentences

• "There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer."
• "Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her pinck'd porrenger fell off her head"