Associations to the word «Porringer»

Wiktionary

PORRINGER, noun. A small cup or bowl usually with a handle.
PORRINGER, noun. A small, pewter dish that colonial Americans ate their porridge from.

Dictionary definition

PORRINGER, noun. A shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle); "the child was eating pottage from a porringer".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope