porron
porron noun: a glass container for wine for table use, with a long neck at the top for filling and holding and a long thin spout at the side to enable pouring into the mouth from a distance.
Noun
porron (plural porrons)
- A glass container for wine for table use, with a long neck at the top for filling and holding and a long thin spout at the side to enable pouring into the mouth from a distance
- A porron is a sort of glass bottle with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip it up; you can thus drink from a distance, without touching it with your lips, and it can be passed from hand to hand. I went on strike and demanded a drinking-cup as soon as I saw a...1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC
- Turns out the group was enjoying a porron, a communal drinking vessel native to Spain.2013 May 6, Kate Parham, “From Spain, a party in a porron”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2013
Forms of porron
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Origin of porron
Borrowed from Spanish porrón, from Catalan porró, possibly from porro (“leek”) or porra (“mace (weapon)”) because of its bulbous shape.
Questions about porron
- What does porron mean?
- Porron means a glass container for wine for table use, with a long neck at the top for filling and holding and a long thin spout at the side to enable pouring into the mouth from a distance.
- What part of speech is porron?
- Porron is a noun.
- What is the plural of porron?
- The plural of porron is porrons.
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