Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pothook

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pothook
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.

noun

A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl.

Example Sentences

"An indescribable character of faded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made it unlike all the other houses in the street—though they were all built on one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of a blundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yet got out of his cramped brick-and-mortar pothooks—reminded me still more of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber."

Etymology

From pot + hook.

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Food.

Inflected Forms

pothooks (plural)

Questions

What does pothook mean?: An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
Where does pothook come from?: From pot + hook.

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