Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who boils a pot.
- noun A cook aboard ship; a pot-wrestler.
- noun A scullion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.
- noun Slang, U. S. One who cleans pots; a scullion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A
voter in certainEnglish boroughs , where, before the passage of the Reform Act 1832, the qualification forsuffrage was to have boiled (walloped ) his own pot in theparish for six months. - noun US, slang, dated One who
cleans pots; ascullion .
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a pot-walloper by capacity, he was a loose-jointed, sniffling creature, heartless and selfish and cowardly, without a soul, in fear of his life of Dan
Make Westing 1909
hernesheir commented on the word pot-walloper
Cf. Hak mir nisht ken tshaynik!
December 5, 2011