Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shallow cup or bowl with a handle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, a porridge-dish; hence, a small vessel deeper than a plate or saucer, usually having upright sides, a nearly flat bottom, and one or two ears.
- noun A head-dress shaped like a porringer: so called in jest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
cup orbowl usually with a handle. - noun A small,
pewter dish that colonial Americans ate theirporridge from.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It should be stated that the word porringer, as used by English collectors, usually refers to a deep cup with a cover and two handles, while what we call porringers are known to these collectors as bleeding-basins or tasters.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The porringer was a very important article of table use, for pap, and soft foods such as we should term cereals, and for boiled pudding.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel.
Northern Lights, Volume 4. Gilbert Parker 1897
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He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel.
Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897
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He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel.
Northern Lights, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Accordingly he bade him set the porringer amiddlemost the table and ate of it his sufficiency, whilst the Fellah filled his belly with those rich meats.
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And while he sat in this state behold, up came the husband man, with a great porringer of lentils67 and a nose-bag full of barley and seeing the pavilion pitched and the Mamelukes standing, hands upon breasts, thought that the Sultan was come and had halted on that stead.
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Thereupon the peasant took the porringer full of gold and returned to the village, driving the bulls before him and deeming himself akin to the King.
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Abu Kir and found he had eaten all that was in the porringer and thrown it aside, empty. —
brtom commented on the word porringer
"... readymade suits, porringers of toad in the hole ..." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word porringer
Sangrado then sent me for a surgeon of his own choosing, and took from him six good porringers of blood, by way of a beginning, to remedy this obstinate obstruction.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 2 ch. 2
September 13, 2008
yarb commented on the word porringer
Citation on Spain.
April 14, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word porringer
""Can I see that?" he said, "What is that?"
It was a baby porringer."
"On the Job" by Diane Williams, in Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, p 29
December 31, 2012
bilby commented on the word porringer
Awesome! Rhymes with oranger!
January 1, 2013
qms commented on the word porringer
On Pewter Porringers
From "looter" we know there is "loot,"
What use does a porringer suit?
Am I able to porringe
The juice of an orange?
Does pewter insinuate "pewt?"
February 24, 2014
vendingmachine commented on the word porringer
See also posset-cup, posset-pot.
August 2, 2015