Added 7 October 2026
pot
/pɒt/ symbol
In Latin: olla Wiktionary
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- ISO 639-3 language code for Potawatomi.
noun
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
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Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot. A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot. A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot. A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; a toilet; the lavatory.
Shit or get off the pot.
verb
noun
Origin
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.
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