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pot-walloper

pot-walloper noun: a potwaller.

Noun

pot-walloper (plural pot-wallopers)

  1. (historical) A potwaller.
    • In the dozen “pot walloper” boroughs, inhabitant households not on poor relief could vote.1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 33
  2. (US, dated, slang) One who cleans pots; a scullion.

pot-walloper meaning in Tamil

pot-walloper in Tamil

தனிக்குடித்தன வாக்காளர், சமையல்வேலைத் துணைவன்

Forms of pot-walloper

pluralpot-wallopers

Origin of pot-walloper

Alteration of potwaller, after wallop.

Questions about pot-walloper

What does pot-walloper mean?
Pot-walloper means a potwaller.
What is pot-walloper in Tamil?
Pot-walloper in Tamil is தனிக்குடித்தன வாக்காளர், சமையல்வேலைத் துணைவன். See Pot-walloper meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pot-walloper?
Pot-walloper is a noun.
What is the plural of pot-walloper?
The plural of pot-walloper is pot-wallopers.

Words near pot-walloper in the dictionary

  1. pot-valor
  2. pot-waller
  3. pot-wallers
  4. pot-walloner
  5. pot-walloners
  6. pot-walloper
  7. pot-wallopers
  8. pot-walloping
  9. POTA
  10. potabilities
  11. potability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pot-walloper (page history and authors); pot-walloper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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