potboilern.

Brit.

/ˈpɒtˌbɔɪlə/, U.S.

/ˈpɑtˌbɔɪlər/

Forms: see pot n.¹ and boiler n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pot n.¹, boiler n.

Etymology: < pot n.¹ + boiler n. With sense 2 compare earlier potboiling adj.

1. A person who boils a pot; †Politics = potwaller n. (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > by specific qualification

potwaller1701

pot-wobblera1712

pot-walloner1725

potboiler1736

potwalloper1744

ten-pounder1833

1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 10 July 3/1 Those poor distress'd Batchelors and Widowers of a certain Town in this Province (especially the latter of 'em who have lost their Pot-boylers).

1776 J. Fletcher Amer. Patriotism i. 25 You insinuate, that all the non-voters in England may go and settle in the few Boroughs, where the constitution allows every pot-boiler to be a voter.

1824 F. Hitchins & S. Drew Hist. Cornwall I. xvii. §17. 650 The right of election is vested at present in all the inhabitants [of Tregony] who are pot-boilers.

1826 J. Savage Man. Electors Taunton 18 To be a Potwaller, or Pot~boiler, or to boil a Pot, was only another mode of expressing that..[he] was a man so far independent of other persons as to be visibly able to maintain himself and family by his own labour and industry.

1986 O. P. Adisa Bake-Face & Other Guava Stories 1 Richard, her baby's father and a pot-boiler at the sugar estate.

2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 2 Jan. 30 Kelly emerged as a dab hand in the kitchen, proving that she's as adept at being a pot-boiler as writing them.

2. colloquial.

a. An artistic, literary, or other creative work produced solely to make the originator a living by catering to popular taste, without regard to artistic quality; esp. such a work produced by an artist, writer, etc., of otherwise recognized merit. Cf. pot n.¹ Phrases 6.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > made to sell

potboiler1783

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece

tinternel1573

aubade1678

nome1705

accompaniment1728

potboiler1783

raga1789

elegy1808

improvisation1824

pièce d'occasion1830

morceau de salon1854

tum-tum1859

murky1876

test-piece1876

invention1880

monodia1880

serenata1883

monody1887

dumka1895

incidental number1904

a cappella1905

folk-tune1907

realization1911

nosebleeder1921

show tune1927

sicilienne1927

estampie1937

ballad1944

Siciliana1947

hard rocker1957

rabble-rouser1958

display1959

mobile1961

soundscape1968

grower1973

lounge1978

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play

king play1469

king game1504

historya1509

chronicle history1600

monology1608

horseplaya1627

piscatory1631

stock play1708

petite pièce1712

mimic1724

ballad opera1730

ballad farce1735

benefit-play1740

potboiler1783

monodrama1793

extravaganza1797

theo-drama1801

monodrame1803

proverb1803

stock piece1804

bespeak1807

ticket-night1812

dramaticle1813

monopolylogue1819

pièce d'occasion1830

interlude1831

mimea1834

costume piece1834

mummers' play1849

history play1850

gag-piece1860

music drama1874

well-made1881

playlet1884

two-decker1884

slum1885

kinderspiel1886

thrill1886

knockabout1887

two-hander1888

front-piece1889

thriller1889

shadow-play1890

mime play1894

problem play1894

one-acter1895

sex play1899

chronicle drama1902

thesis-play1902

star vehicle1904

folk-play1905

radio play1908

tab1915

spy play1919

one-act1920

pièce à thèse1923

dance-drama1924

a mess of plottage1926

turkey1927

weepie1928

musical1930

cliffhanger1931

mime drama1931

triangle drama1931

weeper1934

spine-chiller1940

starrer1941

scorcher1942

teleplay1947

straw-hatter1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

tab show1951

conversation piece1952

psychodrama1956

whydunit1968

mystery play1975

State of the Nation1980

1783 J. Barry Acct. Series Pictures at Adelphi 11 Some others..in great measure compensate for the heaps of inconsequential trash, or pot-boilers (as they are called) which are obtruded upon the public view.

1803 J. C. Ibbetson Accidence of Painting 18 The inundation of portraits, or pot-boilers, at the exhibition every year.

1864 Sat. Rev. 27 Aug. 275/2 Artists and novelists of a certain stamp joke about ‘pot-boilers’—the name facetiously given to hasty, worthless pictures and books,..composed for the simple and sole purpose of being sold under cover of a reputation.

1897 W. C. Hazlitt Four Generations Lit. Family I. iii. ii. 242 All men who have to live by their labour have their pot-boilers.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage l. 256 You hear of men painting pot-boilers to keep an aged mother.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 306 A certain number of works that were neither potboilers nor works of individual genius.

1973 Times 14 Mar. 18/7 In the next three years he directed five pot-boilers and did some screen writing.

1995 Denver Post 2 July e1/4 Everyone knows where to go to find the latest potboiler.

b. An artist, writer, etc., who produces such works. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > producing work to sell

potboiler1801

1801 G. Huddesford Crambe Repetita in Poems II. 163 If every Westminster pot-boiler, Pimp, scriv'ner, scavenger, and tyler, Should silently toss off his can, And toast no more 'The People's Man!'—Then, Sirs, to mine is near allied Your spirit, highly rectified.

1877 Appletons' Jrnl. Mar. 283/1 A man over his own name would hardly like to face the world with the criticism that a great poem is ‘effusive idiocy’, or a great painter ‘a pot-boiler’.

1892 G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene ii. 37 He never seemed to realize that he was anything more than a hard-working pot-boiler.

1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 1/2 The joys of matrimony have an odd way of turning all but the greatest into ‘pot-boilers’.

1942 Rev. Eng. Stud. 18 189 Even the pot-boilers anticipated Fielding's ‘thief-statesman’ equation. ‘We need make no apology for collecting these materials and offering them to the public,’ says one of them.

1968 Iowa City (Iowa) Press Citizen 10 Apr. 5 c/1 They talk of pot-boilers like LSDer Timothy Leary, poet Allen Ginsberg, Dick Gregory, Bob Dylan, [etc.].

3. Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology. A stone heated in a fire and then placed in a container of water to boil it.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > for heating water > heated pebble

potboiler1872

1872 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 1 65 There were many rounded pebbles with marks of fire upon them, which had been probably used as ‘pot-boilers’.

1899 Essex Naturalist 12 105 The large quantity of ashes and charcoal, with calcined pebbles and ‘pot-boilers’, at the bottom of the lake and upon the platform upon which the huts were built.

1928 O. G. S. Crawford & A. Keiller Wessex from Air 137 No pottery was found either below or in the chalk rubble, but between it & the turf-mould..was a layer of calcined flints or pot-boilers.

1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. ix. 240 It is just conceivable that pot-boilers, in the form of small and rough bored-stones, were used.

1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. ii. 17 Small fish and steaks from larger ones could have been spitted on green sticks and roasted, or broiled on hot stones, or stewed in wooden or leather containers heated by potboilers.

2001 Hist. Scotl. Winter 26/1 The inhabitants of Sand were clearly cooking the shellfish because fragments of stone ‘pot-boilers’ were abundant.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	potboiler
释义	potboilern. Brit. /ˈpɒtˌbɔɪlə/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌbɔɪlər/ Forms: see pot n.¹ and boiler n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pot n.¹, boiler n. Etymology: < pot n.¹ + boiler n. With sense 2 compare earlier potboiling adj. 1. A person who boils a pot; †Politics = potwaller n. (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > by specific qualification potwaller1701 pot-wobblera1712 pot-walloner1725 potboiler1736 potwalloper1744 ten-pounder1833 1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 10 July 3/1 Those poor distress'd Batchelors and Widowers of a certain Town in this Province (especially the latter of 'em who have lost their Pot-boylers). 1776 J. Fletcher Amer. Patriotism i. 25 You insinuate, that all the non-voters in England may go and settle in the few Boroughs, where the constitution allows every pot-boiler to be a voter. 1824 F. Hitchins & S. Drew Hist. Cornwall I. xvii. §17. 650 The right of election is vested at present in all the inhabitants [of Tregony] who are pot-boilers. 1826 J. Savage Man. Electors Taunton 18 To be a Potwaller, or Pot~boiler, or to boil a Pot, was only another mode of expressing that..[he] was a man so far independent of other persons as to be visibly able to maintain himself and family by his own labour and industry. 1986 O. P. Adisa Bake-Face & Other Guava Stories 1 Richard, her baby's father and a pot-boiler at the sugar estate. 2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 2 Jan. 30 Kelly emerged as a dab hand in the kitchen, proving that she's as adept at being a pot-boiler as writing them. 2. colloquial. a. An artistic, literary, or other creative work produced solely to make the originator a living by catering to popular taste, without regard to artistic quality; esp. such a work produced by an artist, writer, etc., of otherwise recognized merit. Cf. pot n.¹ Phrases 6. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > made to sell potboiler1783 society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece tinternel1573 aubade1678 nome1705 accompaniment1728 potboiler1783 raga1789 elegy1808 improvisation1824 pièce d'occasion1830 morceau de salon1854 tum-tum1859 murky1876 test-piece1876 invention1880 monodia1880 serenata1883 monody1887 dumka1895 incidental number1904 a cappella1905 folk-tune1907 realization1911 nosebleeder1921 show tune1927 sicilienne1927 estampie1937 ballad1944 Siciliana1947 hard rocker1957 rabble-rouser1958 display1959 mobile1961 soundscape1968 grower1973 lounge1978 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 1783 J. Barry Acct. Series Pictures at Adelphi 11 Some others..in great measure compensate for the heaps of inconsequential trash, or pot-boilers (as they are called) which are obtruded upon the public view. 1803 J. C. Ibbetson Accidence of Painting 18 The inundation of portraits, or pot-boilers, at the exhibition every year. 1864 Sat. Rev. 27 Aug. 275/2 Artists and novelists of a certain stamp joke about ‘pot-boilers’—the name facetiously given to hasty, worthless pictures and books,..composed for the simple and sole purpose of being sold under cover of a reputation. 1897 W. C. Hazlitt Four Generations Lit. Family I. iii. ii. 242 All men who have to live by their labour have their pot-boilers. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage l. 256 You hear of men painting pot-boilers to keep an aged mother. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 306 A certain number of works that were neither potboilers nor works of individual genius. 1973 Times 14 Mar. 18/7 In the next three years he directed five pot-boilers and did some screen writing. 1995 Denver Post 2 July e1/4 Everyone knows where to go to find the latest potboiler. b. An artist, writer, etc., who produces such works. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > producing work to sell potboiler1801 1801 G. Huddesford Crambe Repetita in Poems II. 163 If every Westminster pot-boiler, Pimp, scriv'ner, scavenger, and tyler, Should silently toss off his can, And toast no more 'The People's Man!'—Then, Sirs, to mine is near allied Your spirit, highly rectified. 1877 Appletons' Jrnl. Mar. 283/1 A man over his own name would hardly like to face the world with the criticism that a great poem is ‘effusive idiocy’, or a great painter ‘a pot-boiler’. 1892 G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene ii. 37 He never seemed to realize that he was anything more than a hard-working pot-boiler. 1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 1/2 The joys of matrimony have an odd way of turning all but the greatest into ‘pot-boilers’. 1942 Rev. Eng. Stud. 18 189 Even the pot-boilers anticipated Fielding's ‘thief-statesman’ equation. ‘We need make no apology for collecting these materials and offering them to the public,’ says one of them. 1968 Iowa City (Iowa) Press Citizen 10 Apr. 5 c/1 They talk of pot-boilers like LSDer Timothy Leary, poet Allen Ginsberg, Dick Gregory, Bob Dylan, [etc.]. 3. Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology. A stone heated in a fire and then placed in a container of water to boil it. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > for heating water > heated pebble potboiler1872 1872 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 1 65 There were many rounded pebbles with marks of fire upon them, which had been probably used as ‘pot-boilers’. 1899 Essex Naturalist 12 105 The large quantity of ashes and charcoal, with calcined pebbles and ‘pot-boilers’, at the bottom of the lake and upon the platform upon which the huts were built. 1928 O. G. S. Crawford & A. Keiller Wessex from Air 137 No pottery was found either below or in the chalk rubble, but between it & the turf-mould..was a layer of calcined flints or pot-boilers. 1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. ix. 240 It is just conceivable that pot-boilers, in the form of small and rough bored-stones, were used. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. ii. 17 Small fish and steaks from larger ones could have been spitted on green sticks and roasted, or broiled on hot stones, or stewed in wooden or leather containers heated by potboilers. 2001 Hist. Scotl. 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