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pot-wallopers

pot-wallopers is the plural of pot-walloper.

Meaning of pot-walloper

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.

Questions about pot-wallopers

What is pot-wallopers the plural of?
Pot-wallopers is the plural of pot-walloper.

Words near pot-wallopers in the dictionary

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

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