potboileryn.
/ˈpɒtˌbɔɪləri/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌbɔɪləri/ rare.
= potboiling n.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > made to sell > production of
potboilery1869
potboiling1880
1869 J. R. Lowell Let. 15 Sept. in New Lett. (1932) 147 I entirely agree with what you said in the ‘Nation’—that the Guiccioli's book was a mere fetch. It is the most flimsy piece of mere pot-boilery I ever saw.
1998 Re: 1st SF Bk. Read in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet newsgroup) 25 June ‘Into Plutonian Depths’... What a godawful piece of potboilery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
potboileryadj.
/ˈpɒtˌbɔɪləri/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌbɔɪləri/ rare.
= potboiling adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > qualities of works generally > made to sell
potboiling1870
potboilery1888
1888 H. R. Haggard Mr. Meeson's Will iv. 66 He will be paid five hundred or a thousand pounds apiece for his most ‘pot-boilery’ portraits.
2003 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 8 I think the most potboilery book I've read through choice was my last, The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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