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pot-liquor|ˈpɒtˌlɪkə(r)|
Also (chiefly U.S.) pot-likker.
[f. pot n.1 + liquor n.]
The liquor in which meat has been boiled; thin broth: see also quot. 1886. Also fig.
1744W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July xvii. 101 Mix fine Pollard with fresh Pot-liquor. 1773Graves Spir. Quixote i. ix, Together with her broth or pot-liquor, he contrived to slip something more substantial into Dorothy's pipkin. 1803H. More Way to Plenty 56 The pot liquor made such a supply of broth for the sick poor. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxvii, Mrs. Bagnet..sitting with every dish before her; allotting to every portion of pork its own portion of pot-liquor, greens, potatoes, and even mustard! 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Pot-liquor, the water in which vegetables have been boiled; sometimes called green-liquor, when cabbage or other green vegetables have been boiled in it. 1909Dialect Notes III. 359 Pot-liquor,..liquor from boiled greens or field peas and fat meat. 1930Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 1/3 Pot likker is the best way of preventing nearly all the diseases that we are heir to. 1931Sun (Baltimore) 4 Mar. 12/7 Maryland pot liquor is the liquor left over in the pot after a boiling of ham and cabbage. 1932Ibid. 8 Apr. 1/4 The Louisianian contended that the corn pone should be ‘dunked’ into the pot likker. 1949C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 277 They sat in the hot kitchen and ate greens and side meat and rice and..drank the pot-liquor with the corn bread. 1950Amer. Speech XXV. 230 Pot likker, the juice in which black-eyed peas are cooked. 1963New Statesman 12 July 37/3 During the years when McCarthy's briefcase was a national badge of shame, Americans looked to Britain for an example of sanity and regard for civil liberties. The present anxiety may be unfounded, but some honourable Americans succumbed to the tempting potlikker of the loyalty issue with all its hazy innuendoes. 1974Black World Jan. 53 The boiler at school threatening to blow/flannel gowns and slips Pot likker and cornbread/bundles of kindling for the stove. |