porringer noun2 •A small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer. — 1938 •(no longer used) 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 head — 1613 formsporringers