jampot
jampot is the alternative form of jam pot.
jampot is the alternative form of jampan.
Meaning of jam pot
Noun
jam pot (plural jam pots)
- A pot of, or for, jam.
- She chuckles over the pedantic protocols of Buckingham Palace, where 'tea trays for members of the royal family have their own personal map', showing how the milk jugs and sugar tongs and jam pots must be placed; […]2007 June 16, Peter Conrad, “Diana: the myth, 10 years on”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2014
Meaning of jampan
Noun
jampan (plural jampans)
- Synonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters.
- At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.1887, John Cookson Fife-Cookson, Tiger-Shooting in the Doon and Ulwar..., page 139
- Synonyms:
- dandy or tonjon
- Synonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women.
- ... we find in Crawfurd's Malay Dict. "Jampana... a kind of litter"... It may have been originally in India, as it is now in the Straits, a closed litter for ladies of rank, and the word may have become appropriated to the open conveyance in which European ladies are carried.1886, Henry Yule & al., Hobson-Jobson..., s.v. "Jompon"
- Synonyms:
- mihaffa
Forms of jampot
| plural | jampots |
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Origin of jampot
From jam + pot.
Questions about jampot
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- Jampot is the alternative form of jam pot.
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