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beerpot

noun

Etymology

From beer + pot.

  1. inherited from *budnós✻
  2. inherited from *puttaz✻
  3. derived from *pott✻
  4. derived from pot — “pot”
  5. inherited from pott
  6. inherited from pot
  7. compounded as beerpot — “beer + pot”

Definitions

  1. A cup or mug for drinking beer.

    • Although the beerpot was not sunk in the floor, […] in other respects the conduct of the beerparty followed from past practice. As was appropriate, my 'brother', Maroa, 'opened' the beerpot before anyone started to drink.
    • I tumbled onto the sawdust in a tangle of arms and legs with my left fist gripped around my beerpot struggling to keep it vertical. Some beer was spilt, I admit: not a lot.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beerpot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA