- porringer
- noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English potager, potynger, from Anglo-French potageer, from potage pottage Date: 1522 a low usually metal bowl with a single and usually flat and pierced handle
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Porringer — Por rin*ger, n. [OE. pottanger, for pottager; cf. F. potager a soup basin. See {Porridge}.] A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
porringer — late 15c., alteration of potynger small dish for stew, from potage (see POTTAGE (Cf. pottage)) by influence of PORRIDGE (Cf. porridge), with intrusive n by 1530s (Cf. passenger, messenger) … Etymology dictionary
porringer — [pôr′in jər] n. [earlier pottanger, pottager < Fr potager, soup dish: altered by assoc. with PORRIDGE] a small, shallow bowl, often of pewter and usually having a flat, horizontal handle … English World dictionary
Porringer — A porringer is a small, usually pewter, dish from which Europeans and colonial Americans ate their gruel or porridge, or other hot or cold dishes. They were usually about 4 to 6 in diameter; 1½ to 3 deep; had a flat, decorated handle at one end,… … Wikipedia
porringer — /pawr in jeuhr, por /, n. a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten. [1515 25; var. of earlier poddinger, akin to late ME potinger, nasalized var. of potager < MF. See POTTAGE, ER2] * * * ▪ bowl… … Universalium
porringer — noun a) A small cup or bowl usually with a handle. b) A small, pewter dish that colonial Americans ate their porridge from … Wiktionary
porringer — pÉ”rɪndÊ’É™(r) , pÉ‘r / pÉ’r n. dish for porridge, porridge bowl … English contemporary dictionary
porringer — [ pɒrɪn(d)ʒə] noun historical a small bowl, often with a handle, used for soup or similar dishes. Origin ME (earlier as potager and pottinger): from OFr. potager, from potage contents of a pot … English new terms dictionary
porringer — n. Porridge dish … New dictionary of synonyms
porringer — por·rin·ger … English syllables
