† ˈpoddinger Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 5 puddyngare, 6 podenger, -ynger, (dial. –9) poddinger, 8 podinger.
[An altered form of pottinger, perh. associated with podyng, pudding. (Intermediate between pottinger and porringer: cf. poddish, poddidge.)]
= pottinger, porringer.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 293/1 A Puddyngare, tucetarius, tucetaria. 1532 in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 1 A broken krock, a plater, a podynger and a sawcer. 1552 Bury Wills (Camden) 142, iiijor pewter disshes, sixe sawcers, iij poddingers. 1599 Acc.-Bk. W. Wray in Antiquary XXXII. 243, iiij podengers. 1721 in Girl's Own P. (1886) VII. 627 Put ye soup into it [a stewpan] by podingers, and lett every podinger full boyle up as you put it in. c 1812 T. Wilkinson in Gilpin Pop. Poetry (1875) 204 Poddingers on ivery truncher stood. |