porringer

Noun

porringer (plural porringers)

1. A small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.
   • He here caused a good deal of annoyance, especially by tormenting the children in various ways. Sometimes their bread and butter would be snatched away, or their porringers of bread and milk be capsized by an invisible hand; for the Boggart never let himself be seen[.]1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 307
   • There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer.1938, Daphne de Maurier, Rebecca

   Synonyms:

   poddinger, pottinger

2. (obsolete) A headdress shaped like such a dish.
   • Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her
     pinck'd porrenger fell off her head1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...