potted

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9
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10
Letters
6

Definition of potted

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of pot
    “potted meat”
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verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of pot
    “potted meat”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Grown or planted in a plant pot.
    “Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day.”
  2. (informal, not-comparable)Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
    “The company released a potted statement.”
  3. (not-comparable, slang)Drunk.
  4. (not-comparable)Expressed in a relatively short, brief form.
    “a potted history”
    “what she shared aloud with him after the movie or the episode was over was often just a potted version of a much more probing and speculative conversation that had already happened in her head.”
    “In it she gives a potted history of leading figures from Beatrice Webb to Christine Lagarde and—her favourite—Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secretary, whom she recently met in Washington.”

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Etymology

From pot + -ed. Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" by analogy with potted meat (canned meat), first used in a published work by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic Thinking to some purpose (1939), where "potted thinking" is defined as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking".

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