† ˈpottingar Sc. Obs.
(-gə(r))
Forms: 5–6 potingar, -e, pottingar, 6 potingair, pothingar; erron. 7 pottinger, 8 potinger.
[Corrupted from *poticar, pothecar, Sc. form of pothecary. Cf. the parallel pottingary, where the intermediate forms are better seen. In the later spelling confounded with pottinger.]
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| 1474 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 24 Potingare [see pottingary 2 b]. 1489 Ibid. 129 Item, to Stene pottingar..vij li. xv s. 1533 Ibid. VI. 88 To Francis Aikman, potingair, for sindrie droggis. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 196 He wes ane potingar richt fyne, And had grit prattik of all medicyne. a 1567 Darnley ‘Quhair Luve is kendit Confortles’ 14 (Bann. MS.) For harmes of body, handis and heid, The pottingaris will purge the panis. a 1585 Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 254 Passe to the pothingars againe; Some recipies does yet remaine. 1715 Pennecuik Truth's Trav. in Descr. Tweeddale, etc. 96 The Candle⁓makers came and Flait, The Potingers were very Crouse. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth vii ‘Pardon me’, said he, ‘I am but a poor pottingar. Nevertheless, I have been bred in Paris, and learned my humanities and my cursus medendi’. |