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gallipot|ˈgælɪpɒt|
Forms: 5 galy pott, gale pote, 6 galey potte, galeye pot, gallie potte, 6–8 gally pot (gally-pot), 7 gollee-, galley-pot, 8 galipot, 7– gallipot.
[The first element in this word (occurring also in galley-dish, galley-tile) is of uncertain origin, but possibly identical with galley n.1, in which case the words etymologically denote pottery such as was brought in galleys, i.e. imported from the Mediterranean. Cf. galley-halfpenny.
The Du. synonym gleipot is not recorded till a century later than the date of our earliest examples of the English word, and the editors of the great Dutch dictionary think that its first element may possibly be identical with glei (frequent in the 17th c.), a variant of galei galley n.1 In support of this view, it is pointed out that the Du. kraakgoed, kraakporselein mean literally ‘porcelain imported in carracks’, and a passage is quoted from the Inv. v. Brussel II. 206 which mentions ‘glass-wares brought in galleys and carracks’ (que les galees et les caraques amenent). Farther, gleyers-werk is explained by Kilian as meaning Balearic or Majorcan pottery (cf. majolica). On the other hand, the word glei is given in Kilian and Du. dicts. of the 17th c. as a name for porcelain clay; but it has not been found in any text, except in the compound gleybacker, geley backer ‘porcelain baker’; and it may have been merely formed by misinterpretation of the compounds gleipot and gleiwerk, gleigoed (glazed pottery).]
1. A small earthen glazed pot, esp. one used by apothecaries for ointments and medicines.
1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. 285 Item, the same day my mastyr paid for a galy pott, iij. d. 1552Huloet, Galey potte, culullus. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. 16 That, which Plato sayd of his Maister Socrates, whom he compared to the Gallypots of Apothecaries, which on the out side had Apes and Owles and Antiques, but contained with in soueraigne and precious liquors and confections. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. To Rdr. p. xxii, They make me think of Gally-Pots in an Apothecaries Shop. 1739Clayton in Phil. Trans. XLI. 62, I Took a small Gally-pot, such as the Apothecaries in the North of England make use of. 1796H. Glasse Cookery xxi. 322 Pour it into small high Gallipots, like a sugar-loaf at top. 1855Dickens Dorrit i. vi, Traps [for flies] of vinegar and sugar in gallipots. 1870Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. vi. (1875) 290 A great number of blacks assembled about a pond, bringing with them a sheep and some gallipots. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Gaily pot, a jam pot.
b. transf. and fig.
1630Dekker 2nd Pt. Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 106 She is the Gally-pot to which these Drones flye. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iv. xvii, The little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded.
†c. applied to a silver vessel. Obs.—1
1515Will of W. Willer (Somerset Ho.), A Galey potte of silver double gilt.
2. transf. (in jest or contempt). One who handles gallipots; an apothecary.
1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Gallipot, nick name for an apothecary. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii, Turning a stern look on the alarmed Pottingar, broke out..‘Thou walking skeleton! thou asthmatic gallipot!’ 1842S. Lover Handy Andy iii. 29 The widow in the meantime had been left to the care of the apothecary's boy..and truly her sobs..amazed young gallipot. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxvii, ‘One may ask one's medical man to one's table certainly; but his family, my dear Mr. Snob!’ ‘Half a dozen little gallipots’, interposed Miss Wirt. |