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pote

/pəʊt/US/poʊt/

pote verb: to push, thrust.

Verb

pote (third-person singular simple present potes, present participle poting, simple past and past participle poted)

  1. (obsolete) To push, thrust.
  2. To poke (with a stick etc.).

Proper noun capitalized: Pote

Pote (plural Potes)

  1. A surname.

Forms of pote

Verb
third-person singular presentpotes
present participlepoting
past participlepoted
pastpoted
Proper noun
pluralPotes

Origin of pote

From Middle English poten, from Old English potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stab, push, poke”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to plant”), Norwegian Nynorsk pota (“to poke”). More at put.

English surname, possibly adapted from German Pothe, a variant of the surname Poth.

Words formed from pote

Words that rhyme with pote

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Questions about pote

What does pote mean?
Pote means to push, thrust.
What part of speech is pote?
Pote can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pote?
Pote is pronounced /pəʊt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of pote?
The past tense of pote is poted.

Words near pote in the dictionary

  1. Potcoava
  2. POTD
  3. potdar
  4. potdars
  5. POTDs
  6. pote
  7. Poteat
  8. Poteats
  9. Poteau
  10. potecaries
  11. potecary

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