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pot boilers

pot boilers is the plural of pot boiler.

Meaning of pot boiler

Noun

pot boiler (plural pot boilers)

  1. (derogatory, figuratively, mildly) A creative work of low quality (book, art, etc.), produced merely to earn a living or for profit, as opposed to serious creative expression.
    • Arists and novelists of a certain stamp joke about ‘pot-boilers’, the name facetiously given to hasty, worthless pictures and books[…][1864 August 27, Saturday Review
  2. A stone used to transfer heat from a fire into a vessel of water, so as to heat the contents.

Questions about pot boilers

What is pot boilers the plural of?
Pot boilers is the plural of pot boiler.

Words near pot boilers in the dictionary

  1. pot ale
  2. pot au feu
  3. pot bellies
  4. pot belly
  5. pot boiler
  6. pot boilers
  7. pot boy
  8. pot boys
  9. pot brownie
  10. pot brownies
  11. pot calling the kettle black

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