What Is the Rhyme for Porringer? Lyrics
Try to find a word that rhymes with porringer. It is almost impossible, and that is the challenge this little rhyme answers with a clever trick and a royal wedding.
What Is the Rhyme for Porringer?
What is the rhyme for _poringer?_
The king he had a daughter fair,
And gave the Prince of Orange her.
Printed from https://nurseryrhymes.co/the-rhyme-for-porringer/
- Type
- Mother Goose
- Tune
- Spoken rhyme
- Best for ages
- 6 to 11 years
What Does What Is the Rhyme for Porringer? Mean?
A porringer is a small bowl for porridge or soup. Very few words rhyme with it, so the answer is a cheat: "Orange her", taken from the line about the king giving his daughter to the Prince of Orange. Said quickly, porringer and Orange her really do sound alike.
History and Origin
James Orchard Halliwell noted that the lines refer to the marriage of Mary, daughter of James, Duke of York (later King James II), to William, Prince of Orange, in 1677. The couple later ruled Britain together as William and Mary. Halliwell printed the rhyme in The Nursery Rhymes of England in the 1840s.
Learning Activities
- Hard rhymes: challenge children to find rhymes for difficult words like orange, silver or purple.
- History link: talk about William and Mary, and the College of William and Mary in Virginia named after them.