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pot-walloping

pot-walloping adjective: that drinks heavily; boozing.

Adjective

pot-walloping (not comparable)

  1. That drinks heavily; boozing.
    • ‘I very much doubt whether they’ll be able to make this pot-walloping mugwump of an Abbot understand their wire-drawn deductions,’ said Silvander Dan.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43
  2. (UK, historical) Of an English borough: using the pot-walloper criterion for voter eligibility.

Questions about pot-walloping

What does pot-walloping mean?
Pot-walloping means that drinks heavily; boozing.
What part of speech is pot-walloping?
Pot-walloping is an adjective.

Words near pot-walloping in the dictionary

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

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