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potluck
English
Etymology
From pot +? luck. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, sense 3 (“a shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought”) is unlikely to have been influenced by potlatch even though it has the same meaning.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?t?l?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?t?l?k/, /-?l?k/, /?p?t?l?k/
- Rhymes: -?k (some pronunciations)
- Hyphenation: pot?luck
Noun
potluck (countable and uncountable, plural potlucks) (also attributively)
- (dated) A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available.
- (by extension) Whatever is available in a particular situation.
- (originally Canada, US) A shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought (sometimes without prior arrangement); a potlatch; also, a dish of food brought to such a meal.
- Synonym: (Britain, dialectal) fuddle
- (obsolete) The last draft or portion of an alcoholic beverage in a pot or other drinking vessel.
Usage notes
Sense 3 of the term is widespread in American English, though the Dictionary of American Regional English finds that it is less common in the South, the Mid-Atlantic states, and New York than elsewhere.
Alternative forms
- pot luck
- pot-luck
Translations
See also
- brown bag
References
Further reading
- potluck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers and editors (1902) , “Pot-luck”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: […], volume V (N. to Razzle-dazzle), London: Printed for subscribers only, OCLC 220990342, pages 273–274.
- potluck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “potluck”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “potluck”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- putlock
potluck From the web:
fuddle
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Dutch vod (“soft”), German dialect fuddeln (“to swindle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?d?l/
- Rhymes: -?d?l
Verb
fuddle (third-person singular simple present fuddles, present participle fuddling, simple past and past participle fuddled)
- (transitive) To confuse or befuddle.
- (transitive) To intoxicate.
- (intransitive) To become intoxicated; to get drunk.
Derived terms
- (to confuse): fuddlesome (“confusing”)
- (to become intoxicated): fuddlecap, fuddler (“drunkard”), fuddling (“intoxication”)
Translations
Noun
fuddle (countable and uncountable, plural fuddles)
- Intoxication.
- (uncountable) Intoxicating drink; liquor.
- Muddle, confusion.
- (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.
Translations
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