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Definition of Pottage
1. Noun. A stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat.
2. Noun. Thick (often creamy) soup.
Definition of Pottage
1. n. A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
Definition of Pottage
1. Noun. (context: now archaic or regional) A thick soup or stew. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pottage
1. a thick soup [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pottage
Literary usage of Pottage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes, Critical and Practical, on the Book of Genesis: Designed as a General by George Bush (1859)
"32 And Esau said, Behold, I tand for pottage.' Does a father give his daughter
in marriage to a low caste man, it is observed, ' He has given her for ..."
2. Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier, a Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one by Walter Scott (1887)
"pottage will digest with him when meat will not; pottage will nourish the ...
For there be herbs of God's own planting in our pottage as you call it—the Ten ..."
3. Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to by Nathaniel Cleveland Moak, John Thomas Cook (1877)
"pottage. [1872 H. 117.] Trade Name — Dissolution of Partnership— Use of Old Name
of Firm— Tendency to deceive. A trader, who has been a manager or a partner ..."
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