Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pothunter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pothunter
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.

noun

A person who competes solely to win prizes.

noun

A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importance.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.

Inflected Forms

pothunters (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

potshot pothunting

Questions

What does pothunter mean?
A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.
Where does pothunter come from?
From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.

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