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potted, ppl. a.|ˈpɒtɪd|
[f. pot v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Of meat, fish, etc.: Preserved in a closed pot or other vessel.
1646Evelyn Diary 22 Mar., I was invited to excellent English potted venison. 1742Fielding Jos. Andrews iv. x, The potted Partridge is potted Woodcock, if you desire to have it so. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 106 This kind of potted meat may be recommended. 1876Ruskin Fors Clav. VI. 207 Plenty of salted pork,..potted shrimps. 1922Joyce Ulysses 368 Potted herrings gone stale. 1922J. Buchan Huntingtower iv. 69 There was new milk..and most of the dainties which had appeared at tea, supplemented by a noble dish of shimmering ‘potted⁓head’. 1953Special Sci. Rep.: Fisheries (U.S. Dept. Interior: Fish & Wildlife Service) No. 104. 31 ‘Potted tuna’ consisted of chunks of tuna mixed with potatoes and carrots. 1960E. David French Provincial Cooking 221 As an alternative to a home-made pâté, rillettes, which might be described as a kind of potted pork, are quite easy to make at home. 1977Observer 12 June 19/4 ‘I'm so excited,’ she said, her expression as glazed as potted shrimp.
2. Of a plant: Planted or grown in a pot.
1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Leg. xx. 176 The potted yew trees in the passage. 1883Harper's Mag. Sept. 502/2 Every window was full of potted plants. 1939A. H. Wood Grow them Indoors p. xi, In Carpaccio's..painting of St. Ursula's vision, two potted plants appear in the window of her room. 1976Times 1 Apr. 11/4 The gorgeous store..collapsed amid a welter of potted palms and recriminatory statements.
fig.1866Lowell Biglow P. Introd., Poems 1890 II. 159 Where language is too strictly limited by convention..we get a potted literature, Chinese dwarfs instead of healthy trees.
3. fig.
a. Of a piece of information, work of literature, or historical or descriptive account: put into a short and easily assimilable form; condensed, summarized, abridged. Also transf.
1883Edin. Rev. Oct. 297 What we may call potted learning in the form of popular abridgments. 1901C. H. Welch in Westm. Gaz. 20 May 10/1 Fed and fattened as it flows With verses scanned and potted prose. 1909F. Gardner Pure Folly i. 4 Pélissier..in April, 1907..produced his first ‘potted play’, which he described as ‘Baffles: a Peter-Pan-tomime.’ Needless to say, the skit was a blend of the two plays ‘Raffles’ and ‘Peter Pan’. 1921― Days & Ways xi. 193 The Whip, Faust and The Chocolate Soldier were the most popular..‘potted plays’. 1929Morning Post 2 Oct. 11/7 Previously such questions had merely served as an excuse for potted lectures on the iniquity of the British position. 1937‘A. Bridge’ Enchanter's Nightshade 32 Those little potted abstracts for the general reader. 1946R.A.F. Jrnl. May 146 A potted history of the Journal from its infancy up to this final issue. 1957Listener 24 Oct. 642/1 Even potted biographies are now usually written by experts. 1966Ibid. 23 June 921/3 Photographs of all the county teams, a list of records, potted careers of most of the current players, [etc.]. 1975Physics Bull. May 225/1 The first chapter..attempts to provide a very potted treatment of transport theory.
b. = canned ppl. a. b.
1928Melody Maker Feb. 133/2 The delightful art of piano-playing..is in immediate danger of being usurped by the ‘potted’ music of wireless and gramophone. 1928T. E. Lawrence Let. 23 Apr. (1938) 595 Only gramophone music, but the potted stuff is very well, for people away abroad. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. ii. 29 It was then that I grasped that the cheering was potted, synthetic cheering, issuing from loudspeakers..and conveniently obviating the need for unhygienic, insecure spectators.
4. Of pottery or porcelain, with defining adv.: (well, beautifully, etc.) fashioned or manufactured.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 874/2 The ware is thin, light, beautifully potted, and of the utmost durability. 1969Canad. Antiques Collector Mar. 22/2 The earlier ware of the Koryo period are thinly potted and covered with the well known celadon glaze. 1972Country Life 3 Feb. 273/3 A pair of K'ang Hsi parrots..on the whole more agreeable (no pink) and I thought better potted.
5. a. N. Amer. slang. Drunk, intoxicated.
1924P. Marks Plastic Age xiv. 149 I'd 'a' been potted about half the time. Ibid. xviii. 202, I don't get potted regularly. 1925College Humor Aug. 125/2 Did I ever tell you to go getting potted like you were last night? 1943Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 6/4 Awful calamity at the Park bird bath..when somebody discovered the birds were potted due to some members of the Mint Julep Association having emptied their julep glasses in the fountain. 1959Amer. Speech XXXIV. 156 Gators never merely drink; instead, they sop... They may later be..potted. 1974J. Dowell Look-off Bear 90 He was potted, plastered, stinko.
b. U.S. slang. Under the influence of marijuana (cf. pot n.5).
1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 404/2 Potted adj.,.. 2 Under the influence of narcotics, esp. marijuana. 1968Busby & Holtham Main Line Kill v. 48 The Jamaicans..didn't appear to be potted. 1968–70Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III– IV. 95 Potted, v. High on marijuana... I was potted out of my mind yesterday. 1972Dict. Contemp. & Colloq. Usage 22/3 Potted..under the influence of marijuana.
6. Of an electrical component or circuit: encapsulated in an insulating material (cf. pot v.1 2 c).
1947Plastics July 71/2 Several practical applications of resin-potted circuits at the Bureau have given operation comparable to that of conventionally constructed devices. 1950W. W. Stifler High-Speed Computing Devices xvi. 427 Mass production of potted plug-in units depends upon the development of complex process controls. 1955Brit. Plastics XXVIII. 481/1 Extreme care must be exercised in..the removal of even traces of atmospheric moisture from the surface of the potted components. 1967Electronics 6 Mar. 193/4 (Advt.), Special Assemblies. Rectifier stacks, potted bridges, [etc.]. |