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reel-pot

noun

Etymology

From reel (“to walk unsteadily”) + 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 reel-pot — “reel + pot”

Definitions

  1. A drunkard.

    • And lastly some shall have a palsy in their feet, and will not be able to stand to anything but shake and reel from the stall into the channel—your excellent reel-pots.
    • There I heard news out of all countries in all languages: how many villains were in Spain, how many luxurs in Italy, how many perjureds in France and how many reel-pots in Germany.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reel-pot. 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