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pothunter

pothunter noun: a person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.

Noun

pothunter (plural pothunters)

  1. A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.
  2. (broadly) A person who competes solely to win prizes.
  3. A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importance.
    • But hundreds, perhaps thousands of artifacts have been taken by amateur pothunters, whose activities can disturb the soil and ruin the chance of serious research.2007 December 12, Anthony Depalma, “An Island in the Hudson, Plundered in Search of Indian Artifacts”, in New York Times

pothunter meaning in Tamil

pothunter in Tamil

பரிசில் வேட்டுவர்

Forms of pothunter

pluralpothunters

Origin of pothunter

From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.

Questions about pothunter

What does pothunter mean?
Pothunter means a person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.
What is pothunter in Tamil?
Pothunter in Tamil is பரிசில் வேட்டுவர். See Pothunter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pothunter?
Pothunter is a noun.
What is the plural of pothunter?
The plural of pothunter is pothunters.

Words near pothunter in the dictionary

  1. pothouse ballad
  2. pothouses
  3. Poths
  4. pothunt
  5. pothunted
  6. pothunter
  7. pothunters
  8. pothunting
  9. pothunts
  10. Pothwari
  11. Poti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pothunter (page history and authors); pothunter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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