pot shopn.
/ˈpɒt ʃɒp/, U.S. /ˈpɑt ˌʃɑp/ 1. A shop that sells pots or other items of crockery or porcelain.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
1794 W. Cobbett Observ. Emigration Dr. Joseph Priestley 25 In a pot-shop that was well stocked with ware of all sorts, a discontented ill formed pitcher unluckily bore the sway.
1887 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 39/2 If you visit a pot-shop in a small provincial town, quite remote from the Channel, you will find English wash-stand services of full size, or good French copies of them.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Potshop, a shop where earthenware and glass are sold.
1933 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 17 June 4/7 [He] entered the stoneware business, buying ware from Putnam and country pot shops.
1976 Times 21 May 9/1 He has opened a dedicated pot shop, stacked with all shapes and sizes.
2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 Mar. 5 A pot shop making domestic items, tiles, fountains, pedestals and so on, as well as garden pots.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house
houseOE
tavern1297
tavern-housea1400
sunc1400
tap-house1500
tippling-housea1549
innsc1550
bousing-inn1575
ivy-bush1576
osteria1580
ordinary1590
caback1591
taberna1593
bousing-house1594
pothouse1598
red lattice1604
cupping-house1615
public house1617
busha1625
Wirtshaus1650
bibbery1653
cabaret1656
gaming ordinary1667
public1685
shop1695
bibbing-housea1704
dram-shop1725
gill house1728
rum shop1738
buvette1753
dram-house1753
grog-shop1790
wine-vault1791
pub1800
pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
drunkery1836
pot shop1837
drinkery1840
rum mill1844
khazi1846
beer-shop1848
boozer1895
rub-a-dub1898
Weinstube1899
rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
rubbity1941
Stube1946
superpub1964
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers li. 553 Mr. Ben Allen and Mr. Bob Sawyer betaking themselves to a sequestered pot-shop on the remotest confines of the Borough.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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