porron

P3O1R1R1O1N1

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

Scrabble 8

Meanings

nounporron (plural porrons)

plural porrons

  1. 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

    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
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    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 porron in use.

    1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Catalanporró
  2. Spanishporrón
  3. Englishporron

Borrowed from Spanish porrón, from Catalan porró, possibly from porro (“leek”) or porra (“mace (weapon)”) because of its bulbous shape.

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Translations

Catalan porró
  • porróglass container for wine
Spanish porrón
  • porrónglass container for wine
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “porron,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porron.

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