Pot definition
- A round, fairly deep cooking vessel with a handle and often a lid.
- A short round container for storing or serving food.A jam pot; a mustard pot.
- A coffeepot.
- A teapot.
A pot of stew; brewed a pot of coffee.
To pot a plant.
The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
To pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc. with perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
Lost a pot of cash in the stock market crash; made pots of money on their investment.
Pot a geranium.
- to go to ruin; deteriorate
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of pot
- 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
- 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