pothunter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.
  2. A person who competes solely to win prizes.
  3. A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importance.

Word forms

pothunter pothunters

Etymology

From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.

Related words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.