poddinger

From Middle English podagere, podenger, a variant or alteration of potager, potynger. Compare slightly later porringer.^[1]

poddinger (plural poddingers)

1. (now rare, Northern England in later use) Synonym of porringer (“a small cup or bowl”).
   • 1552, “Gilys Levyt, of Bury.—1552.”, in Samuel Tymms, editor, Wills and Inventories from the Registers of the Commissary of Bury St. Edmund’s and the Archdeacon of Sudbury, London: […] [F]or the Camden Society. […] [by] J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 142:

     Also I gyve vnto y^e said Kateryne Levyt ij fetherbedds, ij bolsters, ij coverlyts, iiij paire of shetts, iiij pillowes, iiij cusshines, one chayer, and sixe newe joynyd stolys, syxe pewter platters of the best, iiij^or pewter disshes, sixe sawcers, iij poddingers, ij bell candelstycks of latten, and too smale candilstycks.

   • 1625, Devon Inventories of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Devon and Cornwall & Society; 11 [New Series]), Torquay, Devon: […] [F]or the Society by The Devonshire Press Ltd., published 1966, →OCLC, pages 32 and 37:

     Two dosen & one Pratter of tynn three basons seven Poddingers, one Dosen of Tynnen dishes, one dosen & ten saucers, on pottle one quart pott, fower pottes, two saltes three Candlestickes, one tunell, all of tynne £3 10s; […] The panns poddingers & other pewter 20s; […]

   • c. 1812, Thomas Wilkinson, “A Lamentation on the Death of Roger”, in Sidney Gilpin, The Popular Poetry of Cumberland and the Lake Country, […], London: Bemrose & Son; Carlisle, Cumbria: G. & T. Coward, published 1875, →OCLC, page 204:

     ’Twas at a feast (whoar youngsters mind their hits,) / Furst poddingers on ivery truncher stood; […]