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potsies

potsies is the plural of potsie.

potsies is the plural of potsy.

Meaning of potsie

Noun

potsie (plural potsies)

  1. Any of the marbles located within a shallow hole (or "pot") used in certain variants of the game.
    • Also, it encouraged long hours of practice to develop skill. Otherwise you would lose even your potsies to a better player.1982, Great Plains Journal, volumes 21-22, page 9

Meaning of potsy

Noun

potsy (countable and uncountable, plural potsies)

  1. (New-York-City, uncountable) A children's game, similar to hopscotch, especially popular in New York.
  2. (New-York-City, countable) The puck used in this game, usually made of a flattened tin can.

Questions about potsies

What is potsies the plural of?
Potsies is the plural of potsie.

Words near potsies in the dictionary

  1. potshot
  2. potshots
  3. potshotted
  4. potshotting
  5. potsie
  6. potsies
  7. potstick
  8. potsticker
  9. potstickers
  10. potsticks
  11. potstone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: potsies (page history and authors); potsie (page history and authors); potsy (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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