pottle potn.
/ˈpɒtl ˌpɒt/, U.S. /ˈpɑd(ə)l ˌpɑt/ 1. A half-gallon pot or tankard. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > holding specific amount
pint1354
pint pot1383
potteler1386
pottle pot1392
gagec1440
quart stoup1452
thirdendeal1571
pint stoup1638
triental1656
pottle1698
go1788
three-out1836
shant1851
jackshay1867
stein1915
viertel1967
1392 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 183 (MED) Lego eidem domui unum potelpot et unum quartpott.
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 (MED) Thomas, my sone, haue..a potell pot of syluere.
1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 505 (MED) Item, that he had paid for vj pottelle pottes of leder fore my said master, vj s.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 87 There came a man out of the toune [sc. Cambridge], with a pinte of wine in a pottle pot, to welcome the prouost of that house [sc. King's College].
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 71 Ist such a matter to get a pottle-pots maidenhead? View more context for this quotation
1624 P. Massinger Bond-man ii. i. sig. D2 Your rambling hunt-smocke..lookes as if He could with ease creepe in a pottle Pot.
1674 in P. C. D. Brears Yorks. Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 140 Twelve Sawcers a pottle pott a quart pott.
a1717 E. Baynard Health (1719) sig. A3v Why should Men dread a Cannon Bore, Yet boldly 'proach a Pottle-Pot?
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand viii Truth and my brains lie together at the bottom of the second pottle-pot.
1873 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 380 Time will bring ale. I sit, pottle-pot in hand, i' the chimney-nook—let the world slide while I taste it.
1937 E. Blunden Elegy 23 One desperate villain got hold on a pottle-pot.
2002 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 20 Apr. 6 A George III leather pottle pot fetched £440.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1860 G. A. Sala in Cornhill Mag. May 580 Edward Ward..although a low-lived pottlepot at the best of times, makes some honest remarks concerning the barbarous treatment of the women in Bridewell.
1885 A. Dobson Poems (1913) 422 Thou art a Pottle-pot... Thou sleepest like our dog all day; thou drink'st as fishes do.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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