porron

See also: porrón

English
A porron in use

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish porrón, from Catalan porró, possibly from porro (“leek”) or porra (“mace (weapon)”) because of its bulbous shape.[1]

Noun

porron (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
    • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 2013 May 6, Kate Parham, “From Spain, a party in a porron”, in Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 2013-12-24:
      Turns out the group was enjoying a porron, a communal drinking vessel native to Spain.

Translations

References
  1. “porró”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Further reading

Finnish

Noun

porron

  1. genitive singular of porro
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