The story
- Middle English · inherited fromparoger, porrynger
- English todayporringer
From Middle English paroger, porrynger, a variant of potager, potynger (“small dish for stew”), apparently from potage + -er, with intrusive n before g as in messenger and passenger. Compare poddinger and later porridge.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.