Pot Definition

pŏt
pots, potted, potting
noun
pots
A round vessel of any size, made as of metal, earthenware, or glass, used for holding liquids, cooking or preserving food, etc.
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An artistic or decorative ceramic vessel of any shape.
American Heritage
A flowerpot.
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verb
pots, potted, potting
To put into a pot.
Webster's New World
To preserve in a pot or jar.
Webster's New World
To cook in a pot.
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To shoot (game) for food instead of for sport.
Webster's New World
To take a potshot; shoot.
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abbreviation
Potential.
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idiom
go to pot
  • to go to ruin; deteriorate
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Other Word Forms of Pot

Noun

Singular:
pot
Plural:
POTS

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Origin of Pot

  • From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“a pot"), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot"), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel"). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot"), Dutch pot (“pot"), Low German Pott (“pot"), German Pott (“pot"), Swedish pott (“pot"), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot").

    From Wiktionary

  • Possibly a shortened form of Mexican Spanish potiguaya (“marijuana leaves") 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 Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English pott from Vulgar Latin pottus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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