potted, ppl. a.
(ˈpɒtɪd)
[f. pot v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Of meat, fish, etc.: Preserved in a closed pot or other vessel.
| 1646 Evelyn Diary 22 Mar., I was invited to excellent English potted venison. 1742 Fielding Jos. Andrews iv. x, The potted Partridge is potted Woodcock, if you desire to have it so. 1806 A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 106 This kind of potted meat may be recommended. 1876 Ruskin Fors Clav. VI. 207 Plenty of salted pork,..potted shrimps. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 368 Potted herrings gone stale. 1922 J. Buchan Huntingtower iv. 69 There was new milk..and most of the dainties which had appeared at tea, supplemented by a noble dish of shimmering ‘potted⁓head’. 1953 Special Sci. Rep.: Fisheries (U.S. Dept. Interior: Fish & Wildlife Service) No. 104. 31 ‘Potted tuna’ consisted of chunks of tuna mixed with potatoes and carrots. 1960 E. David French Provincial Cooking 221 As an alternative to a home-made pâté, rillettes, which might be described as a kind of potted pork, are quite easy to make at home. 1977 Observer 12 June 19/4 ‘I'm so excited,’ she said, her expression as glazed as potted shrimp. |
2. Of a plant: Planted or grown in a pot.
| 1849 Alb. Smith Pottleton Leg. xx. 176 The potted yew trees in the passage. 1883 Harper's Mag. Sept. 502/2 Every window was full of potted plants. 1939 A. H. Wood Grow them Indoors p. xi, In Carpaccio's..painting of St. Ursula's vision, two potted plants appear in the window of her room. 1976 Times 1 Apr. 11/4 The gorgeous store..collapsed amid a welter of potted palms and recriminatory statements. |
| fig. 1866 Lowell Biglow P. Introd., Poems 1890 II. 159 Where language is too strictly limited by convention..we get a potted literature, Chinese dwarfs instead of healthy trees. |
3. fig. a. Of a piece of information, work of literature, or historical or descriptive account: put into a short and easily assimilable form; condensed, summarized, abridged. Also
transf.| 1883 Edin. Rev. Oct. 297 What we may call potted learning in the form of popular abridgments. 1901 C. H. Welch in Westm. Gaz. 20 May 10/1 Fed and fattened as it flows With verses scanned and potted prose. 1909 F. Gardner Pure Folly i. 4 Pélissier..in April, 1907..produced his first ‘potted play’, which he described as ‘Baffles: a Peter-Pan-tomime.’ Needless to say, the skit was a blend of the two plays ‘Raffles’ and ‘Peter Pan’. 1921 ― Days & Ways xi. 193 The Whip, Faust and The Chocolate Soldier were the most popular..‘potted plays’. 1929 Morning Post 2 Oct. 11/7 Previously such questions had merely served as an excuse for potted lectures on the iniquity of the British position. 1937 ‘A. Bridge’ Enchanter's Nightshade 32 Those little potted abstracts for the general reader. 1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 146 A potted history of the Journal from its infancy up to this final issue. 1957 Listener 24 Oct. 642/1 Even potted biographies are now usually written by experts. 1966 Ibid. 23 June 921/3 Photographs of all the county teams, a list of records, potted careers of most of the current players, [etc.]. 1975 Physics Bull. May 225/1 The first chapter..attempts to provide a very potted treatment of transport theory. |
b. = canned ppl. a. b.
| 1928 Melody Maker Feb. 133/2 The delightful art of piano-playing..is in immediate danger of being usurped by the ‘potted’ music of wireless and gramophone. 1928 T. E. Lawrence Let. 23 Apr. (1938) 595 Only gramophone music, but the potted stuff is very well, for people away abroad. 1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. ii. 29 It was then that I grasped that the cheering was potted, synthetic cheering, issuing from loudspeakers..and conveniently obviating the need for unhygienic, insecure spectators. |
4. Of pottery or porcelain, with defining
adv.: (well, beautifully, etc.) fashioned or manufactured.
| 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 874/2 The ware is thin, light, beautifully potted, and of the utmost durability. 1969 Canad. Antiques Collector Mar. 22/2 The earlier ware of the Koryo period are thinly potted and covered with the well known celadon glaze. 1972 Country Life 3 Feb. 273/3 A pair of K'ang Hsi parrots..on the whole more agreeable (no pink) and I thought better potted. |
5. a. N. Amer. slang. Drunk, intoxicated.
| 1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xiv. 149 I'd 'a' been potted about half the time. Ibid. xviii. 202, I don't get potted regularly. 1925 College Humor Aug. 125/2 Did I ever tell you to go getting potted like you were last night? 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 6/4 Awful calamity at the Park bird bath..when somebody discovered the birds were potted due to some members of the Mint Julep Association having emptied their julep glasses in the fountain. 1959 Amer. Speech XXXIV. 156 Gators never merely drink; instead, they sop... They may later be..potted. 1974 J. Dowell Look-off Bear 90 He was potted, plastered, stinko. |
b. U.S. slang. Under the influence of marijuana (
cf. pot n.5).
| 1960 Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 404/2 Potted adj.,.. 2 Under the influence of narcotics, esp. marijuana. 1968 Busby & Holtham Main Line Kill v. 48 The Jamaicans..didn't appear to be potted. 1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III– IV. 95 Potted, v. High on marijuana... I was potted out of my mind yesterday. 1972 Dict. Contemp. & Colloq. Usage 22/3 Potted..under the influence of marijuana. |
6. Of an electrical component or circuit: encapsulated in an insulating material (
cf. pot v.
1 2 c).
| 1947 Plastics July 71/2 Several practical applications of resin-potted circuits at the Bureau have given operation comparable to that of conventionally constructed devices. 1950 W. W. Stifler High-Speed Computing Devices xvi. 427 Mass production of potted plug-in units depends upon the development of complex process controls. 1955 Brit. Plastics XXVIII. 481/1 Extreme care must be exercised in..the removal of even traces of atmospheric moisture from the surface of the potted components. 1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 193/4 (Advt.), Special Assemblies. Rectifier stacks, potted bridges, [etc.]. |