pot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: pots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: potting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: potted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: potted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put (something) into a pot.
pos: verb
examples: to pot a plant
gloss: To preserve by bottling or canning.
pos: verb
examples: potted meat
gloss: To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be capable of being potted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
gloss: To shoot with a firearm.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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.
2005, John Wilcox, The Road To Kandahar
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.
gloss: To take a potshot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
slang
gloss: To secure; gain; win; bag.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
gloss: To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: To tipple; to drink.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: It is less labour to plough than to pot it.
gloss: To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Too much temper likewise prevents the melasses from separating from the sugar when it is potted or put into the hogshead
gloss: To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
pos: verb
tags: East-Midlands
gloss: To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
pos: verb
examples: Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer.
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.
gloss: To score (a drop goal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: With five minutes to go, Trevathan potted his second goal, and finally it was the fullback Taylor who scored.
He played for the Oxford Australians against their Cambridge counterparts, and even potted a few goals at picnic Rugby matches.
Derived words: overpot
pot on
pottable
repot
underpot
unpot
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