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Added 9 October 2026

porringer

noun

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A small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.
A headdress shaped like such a dish.

Origin

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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