单词 | pot mess |
释义 | > as lemmaspot mess pot mess n. Nautical slang (a) a stew, esp. one made from scraps; (b) figurative a state of confusion or disorder. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > dish of many ingredients > [noun] rapé1381 jussel?c1390 hodgepotc1430 composta1475 olla1535 olla podrida1590 gallimaufry1591 pot-pourri1611 hodge-podge1622 olio1642 potrido1651 salmagundi1674 oil1706 Solomon-gundy1752 chow-chow1795 powsowdie1816 make-up1841 poor do1870 scramble1893 mulligan1898 pot mess1914 chow1926 katogo1940 panaché1961 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a state of confused disorder feery-fary1535 puddle1587 bauchle1600 vertigo1702 whemmel1817 mull1821 mix-up1841 scrimmage1852 embroilment1856 hash-up1860 brangle1865 mucker1867 unplight1876 car wreck1877 mix1882 mess-up1902 stirabout1905 pot mess1914 boorach1928 balls-up1929 muck-up1930 balls1938 box1941 Chinese fire drill1943 snafu1943 foul-up1944 screw-up1950 snarl-up1960 tiswas1960 bumble-bath1965 clusterfuck1969 headfuck1983 car crash1992 katogo1994 dumpster fire2008 1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xxiv. 238 What an awful pot-mess my cabin is in. 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 835/2 The resulting pot-mess vanished all too soon. 1945 ‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor v. 55 Everything went into a pot-mess—meat, spuds, peas, beans, rice, oxo, ‘red-lead’ (tinned tomatoes)—and the result was invariably good. 1974 Times 5 Sept. 9/4 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman..is a fine potmess of a book, written in six weeks flat. 2001 Independent (Nexis) 30 June 45 I still remember pot mess from my days of fishery protection duty on an Icelandic trawler. < as lemmas |
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