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pot-girl

pot-girl noun: a girl who works serving customers in an inn or public house.

Noun

pot-girl (plural pot-girls)

  1. (dated) A girl who works serving customers in an inn or public house.
    • […] he turned with practised insolence to a pot-girl in a red shawl who could not have uttered an audible word to save her soul, but who blushed and giggled with pleasure at this mark of attention.1905, Arnold Bennett, Tales of the Five Towns

Forms of pot-girl

pluralpot-girls

Questions about pot-girl

What does pot-girl mean?
Pot-girl means a girl who works serving customers in an inn or public house.
What part of speech is pot-girl?
Pot-girl is a noun.
What is the plural of pot-girl?
The plural of pot-girl is pot-girls.

Words near pot-girl in the dictionary

  1. pot-boy
  2. pot-boys
  3. pot-companion
  4. pot-companions
  5. pot-et-fleur
  6. pot-girl
  7. pot-girls
  8. pot-hole
  9. pot-holes
  10. pot-hook
  11. pot-hooks

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