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A general dictionary of provincialisms
PUTHERY, OR POTHERY, adj. A sheep that has water on the brain, which
causes it to fall down, or move in a very weak, tottering, and uncertain manner, is
said to be Pothery or Potherish. Sussex. Pothery may be from Bother, but whence
is ...
William Holloway (of Rye, in Sussex.), 1839
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Salopia Antiqua: Or, An Enquiry from Personal Survey Into ...
Isl. pota, acu pungere. Swed. pota ; Fr. pocher, digito vel instrumento fodicare. Ill
potch at him some way. Coriolanux, i. 10. Pothery, adj. hot, close. Ex. "Pothery
weather." Strictly speaking this is not a provincialism ; any more than is the
phrase ...
Charles Henry Hartshorne, 1841
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Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases
A pothery day." H.s. H.P." Puthery." H.A.D. POTTER. To pry into other persons'
concerns, to go rummaging about. C.C. F.e.A. H.P. H.A.D. 2. To go about
anything in a slow, awkward manner; working, but making little progress. H.H.
POTTERED.
Anne Elizabeth Baker, 1854
The English poet, Walter Savage Landor, dismissed themas worthless: '
Thesonnets are hot and pothery, there is much condensation,little delicacy,
likeraspberry jam withoutthecream, without the crust, without bread'. He wasnot
ambiguous.
"Crazy, begob, clane crazy the craythur is with broodin' on the loss of his marital
rights," he thought. " Tis aisin' down he wants." "That sounds like more grand
pothery you're sayin', Mr. O'Ro- arty," he said soothingly, "grand pothery
altogether.
Joseph O'Neill, M. Kelly Lynch, 2000
I I A. POTHERY, Claude; BETHUNE, Gregoire de Subdivision of lot with Mignollet
and Menart: LXXVIII 183, 25 Sept. 1608 Agreement concerning party wall (
Pothery, Beranger, and Mignollet): XCIX 90, 22 Oct. 1608; LXVI 22, 29 May 1609
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The rural and domestic life of Germany
... till you get used to them. Many of these seem as if they had never been
cleaned since they were made. They are dashed, worn, and covered with layers
of dust, so thick that they seem to have been travelling through all the pothery
roads of ...
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A new theory of the Earth from its original, to the ...
... self? but partly to those calorifick and ggos ' frigorifick Mxxtures, which are
uncertainly contain'd therein. Mecr Hea-t and Cold are very different Things from
that pothery and sultry, that frofiy and congealing Weather, which alternately L--....
.t,.
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The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In ...
... Pothery, Sf Seton Sf messuagiorum, terrarum, tenementorttm, Sf Hob. 175.
hareditamentorum dicta Katherinee, scitudl. jacen. Sf existen. in pa- rochiis de
Eastwell, Weslwell, Sf Challock in com. Kane, aut alibi in eodem com. diet,
maneriis ...
Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas, John Farquhar Fraser, 1826
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays
In 1843 Walter Savage Landor seems not to have thought much of their style: “
Among all Shakespeare's [Sonnets] not a single one is very admirable, and few
sink very low. They are hot and pothery: there is much condensation, little
delicacy; ...
