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pothook en · NOUN

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Etymology

From pot + hook.

Meanings

1. An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
2. A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl.
   • An indescribable character of faded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made it unlike all the other houses in the street—though they were all built on one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of a blundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yet got out of his cramped brick-and-mortar pothooks—reminded me still more of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber. 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

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