different between pottery vs ottery

English

Etymology

From Old French poterie [13c.], from potier (“potter”), from the root of pot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?t??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?t??i/

Noun

pottery (usually uncountable, plural potteries)

1. Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.

   The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
2. (countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.

   I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.

3. The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.

   Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.

Synonyms

• ceramic
• ceramics
• earthenware

Hyponyms

• porcelain, china

Related terms

Translations

See also

• stoneware
• terracotta

Further reading

pottery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

otter +? -y

Adjective

ottery (comparative more ottery, superlative most ottery)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
   • 1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236:

     Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun.

   • 1996, Albert Goldbarth, Adventures in Ancient Egypt: Poems, Ohio State University Press (1996), ?ISBN, page 23:

     […] this guy she's seen before with the . . . ferret? or mongoose? ... an ottery thing, whatever, on a clothesline leash. . . .

   • 2006, Hans Kruuk, Otters: Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, Oxford University Press (2006), ?ISBN, page 79:

     Spraints consist mostly of food remains, such as fish bones, to which are added the fairly inconspicuous secretions of two anal glands, situated along the gut close to the anus; they produce the 'ottery' smell.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ottery.

Synonyms

• lutrine, otterish, otterlike