# porringer

> English word · Noun

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

## 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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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