ˈpot-comˌpanion
[f. pot n.1 + companion n.1]
A companion in drinking; a fellow-toper.
| 1549 Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 77 Some sayed, he was a Samaritane, that he had a Deuyll wythin him, a gloser, a drincker, a pot-companion. 1636 Heywood Love's Mistr. i. Wks. 1874 V. 105 A pot-companion, brother to the glasse, That roars in's cupps; indeede a drunken Asse. a 1735 Arbuthnot Gulliver Decypher'd Misc. Wks. 1751 I. 82 The Grand Treasurer made him his pot-companion; and the chief Secretary took him into all his pleasures. 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet ii. xx, He has promised his pot-companions to bring home a wife. |
Hence (nonce-wds.) pot-comˈpanioning; pot-comˈpanionship.
| 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Eph. Prol., Whan was excessyue riotous bankettyng, pottecompanyonyng, and belychearynge more outragiously vsed? 1601 Dent Pathw. Heaven 167 As for your pot-companionship, I hate it. |