Word.ws English Dictionary

pottinger

pottinger noun: synonym of porringer (“a small cup or bowl”).

Noun

pottinger (plural pottingers)

  1. Synonym of porringer (“a small cup or bowl”).
    Synonyms:
    porringer

Proper noun capitalized: Pottinger

Pottinger (plural Pottingers)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of pottinger

Forms of pottinger

Noun
pluralpottingers
Proper noun
pluralPottingers

Origin of pottinger

From Middle English potager, potynger.

Questions about pottinger

What does pottinger mean?
Pottinger means synonym of porringer (“a small cup or bowl”).
What part of speech is pottinger?
Pottinger can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pottinger?
The plural of pottinger is pottingers.

Words near pottinger in the dictionary

  1. potting soil
  2. potting soils
  3. potting up
  4. pottingar
  5. pottingars
  6. pottinger
  7. pottingers
  8. pottings
  9. pottioid
  10. pottle
  11. pottled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pottinger (page history and authors); Pottinger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pottinger.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pottinger. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.