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单词 potwalloper
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potwallopern.

Brit. /ˈpɒtˌwɒləpə/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌwɑləpər/
Forms:

α. 1700s– pot-walloper, 1800s pot-wallopper, 1800s pot-wolloper, 1800s pot-wollupper (U.S.).

β. 1700s pot-wallader (irregular).

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: potwaller n.
Etymology: Alteration of potwaller n., after wallop v. (compare wallop v. 3); compare earlier pot-walloner n. In sense 2 punningly after pot n.1 and wallop v. In sense 3 apparently by association with walloper n. (compare walloper n. 2) and walloping adj. (compare walloping adj. 2, and compare slightly later pot-walloping adj. 2).
1.
a. = potwaller n. Now historical.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > householder
housefastc1275
housekeepera1425
householder1434
potwaller1701
pot-wobblera1712
potwalloper1744
compound householder1851
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > by specific qualification
potwaller1701
pot-wobblera1712
pot-walloner1725
potboiler1736
potwalloper1744
ten-pounder1833
1744 C. Smith Antient & Present State County Down iii. 92 Newry is a Burrough Town, and sends to Parliament two Burgesses, of whom the Inhabitants (vulgarly called Pot-Wallopers) who pay Scot and Lot, are the Electors.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Pot-wallopers, persons entitled to vote in certain boroughs, by having boiled a pot there.
1790 M. Dunsford Hist. Mem. Tiverton iv. 180 Anno 1603. The potwalladers elected two burgesses to represent the borough of Tiverton, in the first parliament of King James I. They were returned by the portreeve.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 33 The pot-wallopers of Westminster, Southwark, and Preston, are to vote alongside of the £10 householders of the Tower Hamlets, Manchester, and Birmingham.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vi. 35 What safety will there be in..ten thousand brawling potwallopers?
1884 Manch. Examiner 3 Dec. 4/7 We shall become a nation of potwallopers, with the addition that every lodger is supposed to wallop his own kettle as well as householders.
1988 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Dec. 43 A pot-walloper is a voter. Before England's Reform Act of 1832, only householders could vote in parliamentary elections. The test for determining whether a person was a householder..was this: In his dwelling, did that person have a separate fireplace on which his own pot was boiled?
2005 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 24 May 23 A Potwalloper was someone who had the right to vote if they had a separate hearth on which to boil a pot.
b. derogatory. A fool. Also: an impostor, an upstart.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun]
dizzyc825
cang?c1225
foolc1225
apec1330
mopc1330
saddle-goosec1346
mis-feelinga1382
foltc1390
mopec1390
fona1400
buffardc1430
fopc1440
joppec1440
fonda1450
fondlinga1450
insipienta1513
plume of feathers1530
bobolynec1540
dizzard1546
Little Witham?1548
nodc1563
dawkin1565
cocknel1566
nigion1570
niddicock1577
nodcock1577
cuckoo1581
Jack with the feather1581
niddipol1582
noddyship?1589
stirkc1590
fonkin1591
Gibraltar1593
fopper1598
noddypeak1598
coxcombry1600
simple1600
gowka1605
nup1607
fooliaminy1608
silly ass1608
dosser-head1612
dor1616
glow-worm1624
liripipea1625
doodle1629
sop1637
spalt1639
fool's head1650
buffle1655
Jack Adams1656
bufflehead1659
nincompoopc1668
bavian1678
nokes1679
foolanea1681
cod1699
hulver-head1699
nigmenog1699
single ten1699
mud1703
dowf1722
foolatum1740
silly billy1749
tommy noddy1774
arsec1785
nincom1800
silly1807
slob1810
omadhaun1818
potwalloper1820
mosy1824
amadan1825
gump1825
gype1825
oonchook1825
prawn1845
suck-egg1851
goosey1852
nowmun1854
pelican1856
poppy-show1860
buggerlugs1861
damfool1881
mudhead1882
yob1886
peanut head1891
haggis bag1892
poop1893
gazob1906
mush1906
wump1908
zob1911
gorm1912
goof1916
goofus1916
gubbins1916
dumb cluck1922
twat1922
B.F.1925
goofer1925
bird brain1926
berk1929
Berkeley1929
Berkeley Hunt1929
ding1929
loogan1929
stupido1929
poop-stick1930
nelly1931
droop1932
diddy1933
slappy1937
goof ball1938
get1940
poon1940
tonk1941
clot1942
yuck1943
possum1945
gobdaw1947
momo1953
nig-nog1953
plonker1955
weenie1956
nong-nong1959
Berkshire Hunt1960
balloon1965
doofus1965
dork1965
nana1965
shit-for-brains1966
schmoll1967
tosspot1967
lunchbox1969
doof1971
tonto1973
dorkus1979
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
wally1980
wally brain1981
der-brain1983
langer1983
numpty1985
sotong1988
fanny1995
fannybaws2000
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in reproach
gluttonc1300
jau dewin1340
Pilatec1390
rascal?a1400
swartc1425
hoberdc1450
dogshead1539
ladronea1557
clapperdudgeon1567
soused gurnet1598
jail-bird1603
cocoloch1610
swappes1626
incubee1631
stitchel1659
potwalloper1820
Little Willie1901
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun]
shondc725
faitoura1340
fob1393
trumper?c1450
feature14..
chuffera1500
prowler1519
truphane1568
cozener1575
cogger1580
pretender1583
impostor1586
mountebank1589
sycophant?1589
foolmonger1593
affronter1598
assumer1600
knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602
pettifogger1602
budgeter1603
quacksalver1611
empiric1614
putter-off?1615
quack1638
stafador1638
saltimbanco1646
adventurer1648
fourbe1668
shammer1677
imposer1678
charlatana1680
sham1683
cheat1687
hocus1692
gull1699
shamster1716
coal-blower1720
humbugger1752
gagger1781
fudge1794
humbug1804
potwalloper1820
twister1834
jackleg1844
fraud1850
bunyip1852
empiricist1854
Bayswater Captain1880
bluffer1888
putter-down1906
quandong1939
1820 Sporting Mag. 7 80 Do you take me for..a pot~walloper—an ass—a fool?
1905 Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 1/3 The term potwalloper was indignantly resented as a most improper and scandalous one, which should be withdrawn.
1980 K. Boyle Fifty Stories 169 Upstarts!..Pot-wallopers like Napoleon!
2. U.S. slang. A cook, esp. on a ship; a kitchen worker, a person engaged in menial work.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant
squiller1303
waynpainc1330
kitchener1332
custronc1400
kitchen knave1440
scullion1483
scudler1488
swiller?a1500
dishwashera1529
lubber1538
kitchen maid1551
kitchen wencha1556
scull1566
washpot1570
kitchen stuff1582
scrape-trencher1603
kitchenist?1617
trencher-scraper1650
mediastine1658
drudge-pudding1737
marmiton1754
knife-boy1847
potwalloper1859
kitchen mechanic1861
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > ship's cook
cook1466
sea-cook1707
doctor1803
slushy1859
potwalloper1890
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > ship's cooks and assistants
shifter1704
sea-cook1707
doctor1803
slushy1859
cook's mate1865
potwalloper1890
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Pot-Walloper, a scullion.
1871 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 522 Potwalloper..is in the United States..a scullion or a slovenly person.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pot-walloper,..a cook aboard ship; a pot-wrestler... A scullion.
1927 Amer. Speech 2 362 Cook in a lumber camp. ‘Do you know where we can find a good pot-walloper?’
1942 F. R. Meyer Fighting Talk Pot walloper, Dish washer.
2003 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 14 Dec. s71 Ethel had wanted to become a nurse, but her mother deemed nurses to be ‘pot wallopers’ who did little more than carry bedpans.
3. irregular. Something very big and unwieldy. Cf. pot-walloping adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness > and clumsiness > that which is
lug1545
monster1759
hulk1818
megatherium1850
potwalloper1896
dinosaur1975
1896 Daily News 14 Dec. 6/1 Others were father's boots—you know the sort of thing—regular potwallopers—tens—in which the tiny foot is almost lost.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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