| 单词 | pot-waller |
| 释义 | pot-waller /potˈwö-lər/nounIn certain English boroughs, before the Reform Bill of 1832, someone who satisfied the test as a voter by boiling his pot on his own fireplace within the borough, sometimes in the open air before witnesses to establish a bogus claim (variously altered popularly to potˈ-wabbler, potˈ-wobbler, potˈ-walloner, potˈ-wallˈoper) ORIGIN: pot and OE w(e)allan to boil potˈ-wallˈoping adjective |
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