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pot en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • pŏt (UK)
  • /pɑt/ (US)
  • /pɒt/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • pät (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puttaz Old English pott Proto-Germanic *puttaz Frankish *pottder. Vulgar Latin pottum Old French potbor. Middle English pot English pot From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”). The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

Meanings

  1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
  2. (qualifier:preceded by definite article) A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes). ▸ The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
    • Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot. 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 143:
  3. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
  4. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot.
  5. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
    • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  6. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
    • Alfred Hitchcock once told François Truffaut he wanted to make a film that would examine a city entirely through food and, unusually, waste. […] Samuel Beckett expressed this artistic vision on a more intimate scale. “Dish and pot, dish and pot, these are the poles,” his narrator says in “Malone Dies.” The dish, we discuss freely: Food, in literature and elsewhere, is part of what we talk about when we talk about culture. The pot, at the other end of the alimentary canal, remains a transgressive topic. 2023 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Let’s Talk About the Bathroom Scene”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023:
    • “Clinton,” Gail cried from outside, “are you going to sit on the pot all day?” 2011, Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek, page 204:
    • Shit or get off the pot.
    • Near bedtime, about 10 p.m. or so, I sit on the pot. My “routine” is at night so as to shorten the morning get readies and start work on time. Sometimes the p.m. pot routine is successful, sometimes not. I can only blame myself, of course, when the big event doesn’t occur. I need to drink more water during the day. 2011 December 27, Ken Jacuzzi with Diane Holloway, “This Is Your Life, Ken Jacuzzi!”, in Jacuzzi: A Father’s Invention to Ease a Son’s Pain, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, part III (Learning, Marriage, and Stuff), page 385:
  7. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A crucible: a melting pot.
  8. (Maine) Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
  9. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
  10. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A perforated cask for draining sugar.
  11. (obsolete) Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
    • "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions." 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85:
  12. (Australia, Tasmania, qualifier:Victoria) Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly ▸ A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
    • There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don′t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home. 2009, Deborah Penrith et al., Live & Work in Australia, page 187:
  13. (qualifier:archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
    • Rowten Pot
  14. A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
  15. (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
    • After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.
  16. (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
  17. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
    • The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French... 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 12:
  18. A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
  19. The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
    • No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.
  20. An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
    • a pension pot
    • a savings pot
  21. (UK, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
  22. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
    alt of potbelly
    • Fabienne: I wish I had a pot. Butch: You were lookin' in the mirror and you wish you had some pot? Fabienne: A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are sexy. Butch: Well you should be happy, 'cause you do. Fabienne: Shut up, Fatso! I don't have a pot! I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did "Lucky Star". It's not the same thing. 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction:
  23. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
    alt of potshot
    • England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men. 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
  24. (East-Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
  25. (alt-of, alternative, historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
    alt of pott

Forms

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Deriveds

mud pot · pot-companion · jam-pot · sexpot · dashpot · stinkpot · coffee-pot · upset the pot · waterpot · potmaking · pity pot · one pot · two pot screamer · plant pot · not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of · melting-pot · coffee pot · pee pot · potluck · claypot · hot-pot · pot holder · smokepot · fusspot · pastepot · pot life · matchpot · thunder pot · chamberpot · potholder · pot luck · a little pot is soon hot · potstick · pot shop · Iron Pot Creek · stockpot · pot noodle · pot pie · side pot · stock pot · toss-pot · pot likker · potherb · sandy pot · potwasher · menopot · pot plant · flashpot · potash · pot-pie · pot brownie · potlid · go to pot · cookpot · there's a lid for every pot · keep the pot boiling · pitch-pot · jam pot · white-pot · potale · pottlepot · paint pot · craypot · potshot · pot boy · long pot · coffeepot · ink pot · firepot · smudge pot · inkpot · potman · tarpot · coalpot · pan pot · honey-pot ant · jampot · pot-hook · beauty won't make the pot boil · pot liquor · sulkpot · swill-pot · watering pot · pot scrubber brush · potworks · glue-pot · potboiler · pot-boiler · one-pot · pot out · pot limit · pottery · reel-pot · potcake · pepper pot · teapot · pisspot · try-pot · pot odds · pot roast · potline · potter · a watched pot never boils over · talk the legs off a pot · poacher's pot · tin-pot dictator · pot cheese · potstone · eelpot · pot up · pot lead · pelican pot · lobster-tailed pot · crock pot · potbellied · pot lace · potless · pot of money · paintpot · pot-et-fleur · crockpot · dry pot · pot-in-pot · honey pot · a watched pot never boils · pottage · pot-girl · pot committed · pot calling the kettle black · pothanger · neti pot · mudpot · try pot · pint pot · winepot · pot-house · chamber pot · cook pot · swankpot · potsherd · moka pot · washpot · tea-pot · porridge pot · lickpot · main pot · pot-au-feu · pot-valor · stir the pot · split pot · alepot · put the pot on · pot-walloper · pot-hole · pothole · tosspot · potsticker · tin-pot · fishpot · potpourri · pot-valiancy · potpie · dyepot · gluepot · cooking-pot · tea pot · pot au feu · potworm · potlike · pot-bellied · potware · bedja pot · pot-belly · honeypot · pothunter · pot pourri · kedgeree pot · pot metal · fleshpot · potboil · potty · pot o' one · potbank · potlikker · bough pot · chimney-pot hat · beanpot · pot mod · one-pot synthesis · pot wheel · pot man · pot still · pinch pot · shitpot · you can't get a quart into a pint pot · pothunting · steel pot helmet · potlicker · pot-sherd · peat pot · potscaping · pee-pot · pothook · pot-belliedness · pot boiler · quart-pot · crackpot · pot hider · a chicken in every pot · honey pot ant · sandpot · potboy · pot hat · paint-pot · potgun · potbelly · pot scrubber · whitepot · pot-luck · chocolate pot · hot pot · stewpot · press pot · pot of gold · hunter's pot · pot ale · tatie pot · log pot · pot-plant · monkey pot · not have a pot to piss in · pot hole · pot belly · pot-walloping · piss pot · pot stirrer · pepper-pot · beerpot · potted plant · pot-bound · thumbpot · grease pot · bean pot · potmaker · saucepot · pot-valiant · pot marigold · trampot

Relateds

stove (used for cooking in pots) · lid (used for cooking in pots) · multicooker (used for cooking in pots) · cooker (used for cooking in pots) · potholder (used for cooking in pots) · wok (East Asian round-bottomed pot)

Synonyms

johnny · can · honey bucket · piss pot · pan · shitbucket · po · Cousin John · throne · jordan · cookpot · john · guzunder · shitcan · potty · necessary stool · cooking pot · cooking pot · kitty · shitpot · potty · pisspot · lobster trap · crapper · honeypot · pool · thunder mug · commode · chamber pot · toilet · urinal · jerry · potty-chair · chamber · schooner · chamber pot · cookpot · slop bucket · mingo · shitpot · lobster pot · stool of easement · middy · pee pot · gazunder · Jerry · chemical toilet · latrine · stool · pot · can

Translations (266)

lo ໝໍ້ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sl lonec (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hi पतीला (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ota تنجره (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · es perol (semispherical) (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fur pignat (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · rup oalã (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sq tenxhere (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · tr pot (money wagered) · hu fazék (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi potti (money wagered) · ar طَنْجَرَة (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl pota (coffee pot, teapot) · uz kastryul (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ro oală (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · arq برمة (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · bg под (money wagered) · th หม้อ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · csb grónc (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hy կաթսայիկ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · it vaso (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl pote (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ky көйрө (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · mk ча́јник (coffee pot, teapot) · fi möhömaha (protruding belly) · ko 냄비 (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ko(vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ta பாத்திரம் (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · be гаршчо́к (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · zh 鍋 /锅 (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · lad tendjeré (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · yi טאָפּ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · bg те́нджера (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · zh 壺 /壶 (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sh kòtao (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · pt panela (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ko 단지 (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · myv чакш (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · lad kaldera (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl pote (earthen or pewter cup for liquors; mug) · ru кастрю́ля (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · tg тубак (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · uk кастру́ля (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv hjälm (iron hat) · tg қоблама (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · be кастру́ля (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · kk құмыра (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · mbb kuzen (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · got 𐌺𐌰𐍃 (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi savutorvi (extension of a flue) · fur cite (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · nb potte (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · csb garnc (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fr chaudron (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · nb kanne (coffee pot, teapot) · pl pula (money wagered) · ky карапа (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ceb kulon (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sh шерпа (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · he סִיר (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi merta (trap for crabs and other seafood) · hy պուտուկ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · alt кастрюля (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · de Einsatz (money wagered) · liv padā (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi suosikkihevonen (favourite horse) · ru горшо́к (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sa चरु (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi vessanpönttö (ruin or deterioration) · io poto (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sq vegsh (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fur vâs (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fr pot (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ja ポット (coffee pot, teapot) · yo ìkòkò (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi ruukku (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · nrf malzard (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · txb sapule (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hy փարչ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · it pentola (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · tg дегча (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · mnc ᠮᡠᠴᡝᠨ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hy աման (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · pt covo (trap for crabs and other seafood) · pt bule (coffee pot, teapot) · kmr quşxane (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · it pignatta (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · et pott (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · lv katls (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · te కుండ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · bg кана (earthen or pewter cup for liquors; mug) · sv buckla (iron hat) · ky казан (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl pota (ruin or deterioration) · rsk гарчок (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · uz tuvak (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv pott (money wagered) · tet sanan (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi jumpru (earthen or pewter cup for liquors; mug) · pt pança (protruding belly) · cs hrnec (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · bg чайник (coffee pot, teapot) · nl pot (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ar حلَّة (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv gryta (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · yo ikoko (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ar حَلَّة (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · mk те́нџере (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ca pot (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · nrf pot (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · bg залог (money wagered) · fj kuro (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fa دیگ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gd prais (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi lasi (glass of beer) · gl bandullo (protruding belly) · de Topf (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv kruka (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sga aigen (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ur بَرْتَن (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ckb بەرۆش (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · km ឆ្នាំង (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv buk (protruding belly) · bo ཁོག་མ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi pata (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sh ко̀тао (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · yue(vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · cjs қазанақ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hi बरतन (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ccc kas̈hoto (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · da krukke (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · grc χύτρα (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ota چوملك (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · uk го́рщик (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl perola (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · az qazan (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · tg хурма (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ota حقه (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fr marmite (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ms periuk (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · qu manka (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · njo-jgl po (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ga pota (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · my အိုး (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ru ба́нка (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ga corcán (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · uk ро́ндель (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl ataño (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ky кумура (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · tg кӯза (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · cs půlitr (glass of beer) · pl garnek (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · to kulo (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi pytty (slang: toilet) · da gryde (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · tk küýze (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl cunca (earthen or pewter cup for liquors; mug) · gl ola (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · mrw koden (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi pata (iron hat) · fur ole (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · es pote (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gd poit (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · it nassa (trap for crabs and other seafood) · acm جِدِر (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ar إِنَاء (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ny mbiya (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · vo skal (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ca olla (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ny poto (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ta பானை (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ca pot (money wagered) · acm قِدِر (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fa قَابْلَمِه (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · pl więcierz (trap for crabs and other seafood) · bg шкембе (protruding belly) · kk кәстрөл (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · el κατσαρόλα (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hy կճուճ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sq aplladhe (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · cs pupek (protruding belly) · gl nasa (trap for crabs and other seafood) · gl ursoa (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ur پَتِیلا (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · da potte (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl caldeiro (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · mi kōhua (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · kix yōhtshīhlāk (vessel for cooking pig feeds) · hi मटका (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · pt pote (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · mi tīhake (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · vi nồi (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · it marmitta (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sq poçe (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · pt pote (unit of volume notionally equivalent to the capacity of a pot) · sq kusi (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · pl wereżka (trap for crabs and other seafood) · nv ásaaʼ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · jra gô̆ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · it posta (money wagered) · nn kanne (coffee pot, teapot) · mi hōpane (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · mk ло́нец (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv ölmage (protruding belly) · sq sahan (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sh šerpa (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv kask (iron hat) · is pottur (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi pönttö (slang: toilet) · ja(vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ko 통발 (trap for crabs and other seafood) · be ро́ндаль (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · crh badiye (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ckb مەنجەڵ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sh lònac (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · kmr beroş (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi kattila (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sm 'ulo (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · nds Pott (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv kanna (coffee pot, teapot) · sh ло̀нац (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ko 포트 (coffee pot, teapot) · mdh kuden (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ta பானை (protruding belly) · it piatto (money wagered) · cs cejcha (protruding belly) · cs helmice (iron hat) · ur مَٹْکا (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl desfeita (ruin or deterioration) · eo poto (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · pt caçapa (cue sports: act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket) · gl pota (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hy անոթ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · tg дег (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv insats (money wagered) · fi pussitus (cue sports: act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket) · oc ola (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hy գավաթ (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sw chungu (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gun oja (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fi eriste (rail transport: non-conducting stand that supports the third rail) · tr tencere (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ta பானை (unit of volume notionally equivalent to the capacity of a pot) · el χύτρα (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · es olla (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sv potta (slang: toilet) · alt кӧӧш (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · hu edény (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · msk koron (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · nn potte (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · es marmita (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · uz qozon (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sa पात्र (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · xcl պոյտն (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ug قازان (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl cadira (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · la olla (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · gl perolo (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · nrf tèrrinne (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · sk hrniec (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ar قِدْر (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · txb lwāke (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · ka ქოთანი (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.) · fr pot (unit of volume notionally equivalent to the capacity of a pot) · sv krus (earthen or pewter cup for liquors; mug) · ar قِدِر (vessel for cooking or storing food etc.)

wikidata: Q2366864 · wikidata: Q2366864

Source: en.wiktionary, “pot” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

pot en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • pŏt (UK)
  • /pɑt/ (US)
  • /pɒt/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • pät (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puttaz Old English pott Proto-Germanic *puttaz Frankish *pottder. Vulgar Latin pottum Old French potbor. Middle English pot English pot From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”). The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

Meanings

  1. To put (something) into a pot.
    • to pot a plant
  2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
    • potted meat
  3. To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
  4. (transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  5. (intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
    • The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
  6. (slang, transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
    • Luckily Jenkins — our best shot — was on guard and spotted him and... er... potted him, as I said. Buried him in a shallow grave below stones, so it's unlikely he will be found. 2005, John Wilcox, The Road To Kandahar:
    • When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed. 1897, Encyclopaedia of Sport:
  7. (dated, intransitive, slang) To take a potshot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  8. (colloquial, transitive) To secure; gain; win; bag.
  9. (UK) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
  10. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To tipple; to drink.
    • It is less labour to plough than to pot it. 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
  11. (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
    • Too much temper likewise prevents the melasses from separating from the sugar when it is potted or put into the hogshead 1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies:
  12. (UK, transitive) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
    • Do not make the mistake of potting your baby as early as possible, but wait until she gives the signal that she is aware that puddles are somehow to do with her. 2004, Joan Gomez, Coping with Incontinence, →ISBN, page 33:
    • Ideally the best Ideally the best way of tackling the problem of toilet training, is to 'pot' your child at set intervals when he is at home, even though he may no longer be a baby, thus establishing a regular routine instead of one at odd intervals. 1975, Nancie R. Finnie, Handling the Young Cerebral Palsied Child, →ISBN, page 75:
    • Of course, if at any stage your child takes a violent dislike to the pot, then I would put it away for a few weeks and then try again, but if the pot is very comfortable, your attitude is calm and you don't over-pot your child (put him on the pot too often or talk about the pot too much), this shouldn't happen. 2012, Nanny Smith, Nina Grunfeld, Nanny Knows Best: Successful Potty Training, →ISBN:
    • If you leave out this “catching" stage altogether and start proper toilet training at, say, eighteen months you will only have to pot your baby about 2000 times for the same effect. 1978, Penelope Leach, Your Baby & Child from Birth to Age Five, →ISBN, page 225:
  13. (East-Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
  14. To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
    • Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer. 1986, Carolyn Ellis, Fisher Folk: Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 77:
    • Potting Eels: Except for the mature neshaws, Vineyard eels were potted (caught by pots) in September and October. […] When eeling was good, each pot would catch 25 to 100 pounds of neshaws; some pots would be filled to capacity. 1994, The Dukes County Intelligencer, volumes 36-37, page 131:
  15. (transitive) To score (a drop goal).
    • With five minutes to go, Trevathan potted his second goal, and finally it was the fullback Taylor who scored. 1967, Arthur H. Carman, Ranfurly Shield Rugby, page 139:
    • He played for the Oxford Australians against their Cambridge counterparts, and even potted a few goals at picnic Rugby matches. 1998, Geoffrey Serle: In Tribute, page 20:

Forms

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potting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pots Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
potted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
potted Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

pottable · repot · overpot · underpot · unpot · pot on

Translations (26)

fi purkittaa (preserve) · fi heittää häkkiin (send someone to jail expeditiously) · fi tölkittää (preserve) · fi ruukuttaa (put (something) into a pot) · fi purkittaa (put (something) into a pot) · nl oppotten (put (something) into a pot) · es meter (cause a ball to fall into a pocket) · io enpotigar (put (something) into a pot) · fi panna kiven sisään (send someone to jail expeditiously) · de etwas in einen Topf werfen (put (something) into a pot) · bg консервирам (preserve) · fi pussittaa (cause a ball to fall into a pocket) · hy պահածոյացնել (preserve) · nl potten (cause a ball to fall into a pocket) · de lochen (cause a ball to fall into a pocket) · fi kipata (tipple; drink) · fi ampua umpimähkään (take a pot shot) · fi käyttää potalla (seat a child onto a potty) · fi valuttaa (drain) · nl inmaken (preserve) · fi pullottaa (preserve) · fi ottaa voitto kotiin (secure; gain; win; bag) · fi mennä pussiin (cue sports: be capable of being potted) · hy ամանի մեջ դնել (put (something) into a pot) · fi kipsata (apply a plaster cast) · fi pudottaa (shoot with a firearm)

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pot en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • pŏt (UK)
  • /pɑt/ (US)
  • /pɒt/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • pät (US)

Etymology

Possibly a shortened form of Mexican Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya (“cannabis leaves”), or potación de guaya (literally “drink of grief”), supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped, from pota + de + guaya (see guayar (“to lament”)).

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
    • The way we figure it, ma'am, if everybody walked around naked, smoked pot and listened to rock'n'roll, there wouldn't be any more wars! 1968 July, Shel Silverstein, “Silverstein's Hippies”, in Playboy Magazine, page 189:

Deriveds

pothead · potender · antipot · potless · potaholic

Synonyms

bud · ganja · greenery · trees · dank · herb · hash · choof · devil's lettuce · weed · marihoochie · dope · cannabis · pot · sensimillia · mull · yarndie · boo · doja · grass · Texas tea · MJ · doobage · Mary Jane · benj · ganj · djamba · green · sensimilla · zaza · method · reefer · tea · zombie · hemp · wacky tobaccy · daccha · broccoli · bhang · sens · shit · sweetleaf · Mary Joanna · muggle · mezz · twig · cheeba · buddha · hashish · marijuana · endo · puff · gage

Translations (33)

fr beuh (marijuana) · mk марихуа́на (marijuana) · hu marihuána (marijuana) · fr beu (marijuana) · da pot (marijuana) · fr mari (marijuana) · ta கஞ்சா (marijuana) · cs marihuana (marijuana) · he חֲשִׁישׁ (marijuana) · it cannabis (marijuana) · da græs (marijuana) · pl zioło (marijuana) · de Gras (marijuana) · pt maconha (marijuana) · nl wiet (marijuana) · pl marihuana (marijuana) · ru марихуана (marijuana) · fi ruoho (marijuana) · fr herbe (marijuana) · fr zamal (Réunion) (marijuana) · pl trawa (marijuana) · it marijuana (marijuana) · es marihuana (marijuana) · mk тре́ва (marijuana) · fr marie-jeanne (marijuana) · cs tráva (marijuana) · de Marihuana (marijuana) · ru травка (marijuana) · hu(marijuana) · pt erva (marijuana) · it erba (marijuana) · sv braj (marijuana) · fr pot (marijuana)

wikidata: Q2845

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pot en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • pŏt (UK)
  • /pɑt/ (US)
  • /pɒt/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • pät (US)

Etymology

Clipping of potentiometer.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

Forms

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pots Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

thumb pot · slide pot

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pot en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • pŏt (UK)
  • /pɑt/ (US)
  • /pɒt/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • pät (US)

Etymology

Clipping of potentiometer.

Meanings

  1. (slang) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
    • While the announcer is talking, the select switch on the mixing board for the microphone input is selected, and the microphone is “potted up.” 1999, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-engineers, page 23:

Forms

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potting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
potted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
potted Tense=Past lexicographic
pots Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
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pot en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • pŏt (UK)
  • /pɑt/ (US)
  • /pɒt/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • pät (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin pōtiōder. Old French pocionbor. Middle English pocioun English potionclip. English pot Clipping of potion.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, qualifier:roleplaying games) Clipping of potion.
    alt of potion

Forms

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