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potwalloper|pɒtˈwɒləpə(r)|
Forms: α. 8 pot-walloner, -iner. β. 8– pot(-)walloper, 9 -wallopper, -wolloper.
[One of the popular alterations of potwaller (after wallop v. to boil with agitation), which has in general use largely supplanted the original word.
It is found first in De Foe's Tour, ed. 1769, as an alteration of pot-walloner, the form in the earlier edd. 1725–53; whether as a misprint, or as an intended correction of an erroneous form, does not appear. Thence, prob., in Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue, 1785. From these works app. this form became generally known, while other forms in local use disappeared.]
1. = potwaller.
α1725De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. II. ii. 21 This Town [Taunton] chooses Two Members of Parliament, and their way of choosing is by those whom they call Pot-Walloners [so edd. 1742, 1753; ed. 1769 Pot-Wallopers], that is to say, Every Inhabitant, whether Housekeeper or Lodger, that dresses their own Victuals. a1749Upton MS. Addit. to Junius (Halliw.), Tanodunii in agro Somersetensi vocantur Pot⁓walliners. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Taunton, The election of members of parliament here is very singular; every pot-walloner, i.e. that dresses his own victuals, is intitled to vote. 1791W. Collinson Hist. Somerset III. 226 Taunton..has returned members to parliament from the years 1294, 23 Edw. I. The right of choosing these members is vested in the parishioners boiling their own pot (hence called Pot-Walloners) residing within the limits of the borough, not being stated paupers.
β1769[see quot. 1725 in α]. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Pot-wallopers, persons entitled to vote in certain boroughs, by having boiled a pot there. 1791Luckombe Beauties Eng. I. 58 Every pot-walloper, that is, he who dresses his own victuals, is entitled to vote for members of parliament. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 33 The pot-wallopers of Westminster, Southwark, and Preston, are to vote alongside of the {pstlg}10 householders of the Tower Hamlets, Manchester, and Birmingham. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. vi. (1872) 206 What safety will there be in..ten thousand brawling potwallopers? 1884Manch. Exam. 3 Dec. 4/7 We shall become a nation of potwallopers, with the addition that every lodger is supposed to wallop his own kettle as well as householders.
b. applied as a term of reproach.
1820Sporting Mag. VII. 80 Do you take me for..a pot⁓walloper—an ass—a fool? 1905Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 1/3 The term potwalloper was indignantly resented as a most improper and scandalous one, which should be withdrawn.
2. (See quots.)
1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Pot-Walloper, a scullion. 1890Cent. Dict., Pot-walloper... (b) A cook aboard ship; a pot-wrestler. (Slang.) (c) A scullion. Bartlett. 1902Farmer Slang, Pot-walloper..2. (common). A scullion; a kitchen-maid; and (nautical) a cook, esp. on board a whaler: also pot-wrestler.
¶3. Erroneously applied to something very big or clumsy. (Cf. pot-walloping a. 2.)
1896Daily News 14 Dec. 6/1 Others were father's boots—you know the sort of thing—regular potwallopers—tens—in which the tiny foot is almost lost. |