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† ˈpottingar Sc. Obs.|-gə(r)|
Forms: 5–6 potingar, -e, pottingar, 6 potingair, pothingar; erron. 7 pottinger, 8 potinger.
[Corrupted from *poticar, pothecar, Sc. form of pothecary. Cf. the parallel pottingary, where the intermediate forms are better seen. In the later spelling confounded with pottinger.]
= next, 1.
1474Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 24 Potingare [see pottingary 2 b]. 1489Ibid. 129 Item, to Stene pottingar..vij li. xv s. 1533Ibid. VI. 88 To Francis Aikman, potingair, for sindrie droggis. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 196 He wes ane potingar richt fyne, And had grit prattik of all medicyne. a1567Darnley ‘Quhair Luve is kendit Confortles’ 14 (Bann. MS.) For harmes of body, handis and heid, The pottingaris will purge the panis. a1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 254 Passe to the pothingars againe; Some recipies does yet remaine. 1715Pennecuik Truth's Trav. in Descr. Tweeddale, etc. 96 The Candle⁓makers came and Flait, The Potingers were very Crouse. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii ‘Pardon me’, said he, ‘I am but a poor pottingar. Nevertheless, I have been bred in Paris, and learned my humanities and my cursus medendi’. |