English Explanatory Dictionary

potted

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of pot
adj
  1. Grown or planted in a plant pot.
  2. Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
  3. Drunk.
  4. Expressed in a relatively short, brief form.

Pronunciation

En-au-potted.ogg

Word forms

potted

Etymology

From pot + -ed. Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" by analogy with potted meat (canned meat), first used in a published work by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic Thinking to some purpose (1939), where "potted thinking" is defined as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking".

Synonyms

prepared Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked blootered blottoed blue bollocksed bombed boozy bosky bottled Brahms Brahms and Liszt budgy bungalowed bungfu burlin' canned clobbered corned cocked cockeyed crapulous crocked cunted cup-shot cup-shotten cut dead drunk destroyed disguised drunk drunk as a piper drunked up drunken ebriated ebriose elephant's

Derived words

potted plant potted shrimp
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