pot-liquorn.1
/ˈpɒtˌlɪkə/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌlɪkər/ Now chiefly U.S.
The water in which meat, vegetables, etc., have been boiled, often regarded as having health-giving properties; broth, stock (cf. liquor n. 4). Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > stock or liquor
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > stock or liquor > vegetable stock
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1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July xvii. 101 Mix fine Pollard with fresh Pot-liquor.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. i. ix. 31 Together with her broth or pot-liquor, he contrived to slip something more substantial into Dorothy's pipkin.
1803 H. More Way to Plenty 56 The pot liquor made such a supply of broth for the sick poor.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxvii. 272 Mrs. Bagnet..sitting with every dish before her; allotting to every portion of pork its own portion of pot-liquor, greens, potatoes, and even mustard.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Pot-liquor, the water in which vegetables have been boiled; sometimes called green-liquor, when cabbage or other green vegetables have been boiled in it.
1930 Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 1/3 Pot likker is the best way of preventing nearly all the diseases that we are heir to.
1963 New Statesman 12 July 37/3 Some honourable Americans succumbed to the tempting potlikker of the loyalty issue with all its hazy innuendoes.
2003 T. Morrison Love 66 I was resting by the sink and blowing on a cup of pot liquor before dipping my bread in.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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