pot o' one
pot o' one noun: a solitary, withdrawn or independent person.
Noun
pot o' one (plural pots o' one)
- A solitary, withdrawn or independent person.
- My grandmother always referred to me as a 'pot o' one' as, being the only one, I kept to myself. The saying I believe is strictly West Yorkshire, and is to do with the weaver's trade. When replacing a broken end in the loom the weavers dipped the end in a pot of warm tallow, which was kept for...1997, David Paynter, Clive Upton and J.D.A. Widdowson, Yorkshire Words Today: a glossary of regional dialect, The Yorkshire Dialect Society and the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition...
Forms of pot o' one
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Origin of pot o' one
Apparently an allusion to those weavers who kept their own individual tallow-pots: see 1997 citation.
Questions about pot o' one
- What does pot o' one mean?
- Pot o' one means a solitary, withdrawn or independent person.
- What part of speech is pot o' one?
- Pot o' one is a noun.
- What is the plural of pot o' one?
- The plural of pot o' one is pots o' one.
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