ProphetesAI is thinking...
pot-walloping
Answers
MindMap
Loading...
Sources
Potwalloper - Wikipedia
A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) or householder borough was a voter in a parliamentary borough in which the franchise was extended to the ...
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
POT-WALLOPING Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
adjective British : qualifying for suffrage by maintaining an independent household : being a potwalloper : consisting of potwallopers.
www.merriam-webster.com
www.merriam-webster.com
pot-walloping, adj. meanings, etymology and more
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective pot-walloping. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
www.oed.com
www.oed.com
pot-walloping
▪ I. pot-ˈwalloping, n. nonce-wd. [f. pot n.1 + walloping: see wallop v.] The boiling of a pot; in quot. the sound produced by the boiler of an engine.1849 De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach §1 Wks. 1862 IV. 303 The trumpet that once announced from afar the laurelled mail..has now given way for ever to the ...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
POTWALLOPER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of POTWALLOPER is a voter living in an English borough before the Reform Act of 1832 and qualifying for suffrage as a householder by the boiling ...
www.merriam-webster.com
www.merriam-webster.com
POT-WALLOPER definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
(in some English boroughs) a man entitled to the franchise before 1832 by virtue of possession of his own fireplace. Collins English Dictionary.
www.collinsdictionary.com
www.collinsdictionary.com
potwalloper
potwalloper (pɒtˈwɒləpə(r)) Forms: α. 8 pot-walloner, -iner. β. 8– pot(-)walloper, 9 -wallopper, -wolloper. [One of the popular alterations of potwaller (after wallop v. to boil with agitation), which has in general use largely supplanted the original word. It is found first in De Foe's Tour, ed. 17...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Potwallopers - Westward Ho! History
The right to graze sheep and horses still belong to 'potwallopers' plus the right of access to the common land. wwho potwallopers 1925 article. 1925 ...
www.westwardhohistory.co.uk
www.westwardhohistory.co.uk
pot-walloping, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
[pot-walloper n.] 1. drinking heavily; also as abusive adj. ... 2. dish-washing. ... ← pot-walloper, n.
www.greensdictofslang.com
www.greensdictofslang.com
pot-walloping - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(historical) Of an English borough: using the pot-walloper criterion for voter eligibility.
en.wiktionary.org
en.wiktionary.org
pot-walloping, n. meanings, etymology and more
This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the 1840s. See meaning & use. Where does the noun pot-walloping come from? Earliest known ...
www.oed.com
www.oed.com
pot-walloper, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
pot-walloper n. [a pun on SE pot-walloper, lit. 'the boiler of a pot'. 'The term applied in some English boroughs, before the Reform Act of 1832, ...
greensdictofslang.com
greensdictofslang.com
lumber
▪ I. lumber, n.1 (ˈlʌmbə(r)) Also 6 lumbor, 7 lumbar. [Prob. f. lumber v.1, which occurs much earlier. But as a lumber-house or pawnbroker's shop was in fact a storehouse for such odds and ends of property as are denominated ‘lumber’, the word was prob. at one time more or less associated with lumbe...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
wall
▪ I. wall, n.1 (wɔːl) Forms: 1 weall, weal, wall, 3–7 wal, walle, 4–7 wale, 4–6 Sc. vall, 6 Sc. val(e, (5 whalle,) 6 waule, (wawle), 8–9 Sc. wa', 3– wall. [OE. wall (WS. weall), corresp. to OFris. wal, OS. wal(l, (M)LG., (M)Du. wal, MHG. wal from MLG. (mod.G. wall), a Saxon and Anglo-Frisian adoptio...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai