10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POT-WALLOPER»
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A Bibliography of English Etymology
Pot—Waller : Pot-Walloper. NQ X/ 8: 298. 4. 1859a. Copse. NQ II/7: 284. 4. 1907e
. Pot—Waller : Pot-Walloper. NQ X/8: 371. 4. 1859b. Wary-Angle : Old English
Name of the 4. 1908a. Abracadabra. N Q X / 10: 54. Butcher-Bird, or Pie grieche.
Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, 2010
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The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors
Mr. Lemuel Supple, on the contrary, had no more coats than backs, and both very
bare; when at a W'estminster election, he being a pot-walloper, though in the one
garret he kept for his family use, out of a house for which he paid, or agreed to ...
Mrs. Bennett (Agnes Maria), 1813
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The Standard Dictionary of English Slang
6$SSS#t Pot- walloper— (1) Previous to the Reform Bill of 1832, in certain
boroughs the right to vote in Parlia- mentary elections was only enjoyed by " a
man who was in a position to boil a pot of his own, and was not dependent for his
meals ...
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THE ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE, OR, REPOSITORY OF GENERAL ...
Sir, In auswer to your correspondent! the Pot-walloper of Pork-soaking Ward, who
, according to his letter, has forgot the method of salting beef used by hia friend
the Canon of go to clmroli for about an hour; but, before ami 140 Useful Notices, ...
Pot walloper was John's name for domestic servants. When I told him that the
young woman said she was busy but she'd boil the water in a few minutes, he lit
a cigarette before saying, “Yeh couldn't believe daylight out of that wan.” The
boiling ...
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The Reform Bill for England and Wales Examined
When the franchise of the pot-walloper is in question, they forbid us to infringe
existing rights more extensively than necessity requires, which, being interpreted,
means that they donot, care to provoke a body of such physical force as the ...
Great Britain. Parliament, 1831
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A general dictionary of provincialisms
(This word, I suppose, has the same origin as Walloper, Pot-Walloper; that is, one
who boiled a pot of his own, and thus became entitled to a vote in many
boroughs before the Reform Bill was passed in I832. Some derive Walloping
from the ...
William Holloway (of Rye, in Sussex.), 1839
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The Slang Dictionary; Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, ...
s time distinguished himself by WALLOPING the French ; but it is more probably
connected with WEAL, a livid swelling in the skin after a blow. — See POT-
WALLOPER. WALLOPING, a beating or thrashing; sometimes used in an
adjective ...
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The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
(F. - C.) M. E.fot'1- - P- F. /0Ar/, a small pot, small measure ; dimin. of V.fot, a pot (
above). pot walloper. '(C. ami E.) Lit. ' one who boils a pot ; ' hence a voter who
has a vote because he can boil a pot on his own fire. Wallop, to boil, is the same
...
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The history of Taunton, in the county of Somerset
... not peculiar to popular boroughs; and the evils of which a contest is ever
productive are not to be imputed to a number of persons who ' Pot-waller, Pot.
walloner, Pot. walloper, signifies one that boils hjs own pot, and dresses hi, own
victuals.
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