porringer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.
    — There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer.
  2. A headdress shaped like such a dish. obsolete
    — Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her pinck'd porrenger fell off her head

词形变化

porringers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
porringerful

词源

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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