porringer

[ pawr-in-jer, por- ]

/ ˈpɔr ɪn dʒər, ˈpɒr- /

a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.

Origin of porringer

1515–25; variant of earlier poddinger, akin to late Middle English potinger, nasalized variant of potager < Middle French. See pottage, -er²

Its handle carries one back to the porringer of Stuart days with its out-turned terminal.

Chats on Old Sheffield Plate |Arthur Hayden
I have the old Vanderdecken porringer, if it is the one with the cow on the cover.

Margaret Montfort |Laura E. Richards
You and Porringer are to go to Godwyn's after that new sail for the Nancy.

Prisoners of Hope |Mary Johnston
If you go near a dairy, the proprietor comes out with a porringer of milk, and will sell it to you in spite of yourself.

A Tour Through The Pyrenees |Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

He had not much trouble in finishing what was left in the porringer.

The Man Who Laughs |Victor Hugo

porringer

/ (ˈpɒrɪndʒə) /

a small dish, often with a handle, for soup, porridge, etc

C16: changed from Middle English potinger, poteger, from Old French potager, from potage soup, contents of a pot; see pottage