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Definition of Potboiler
1. Noun. A literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot).
Definition of Potboiler
1. n. A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living.
Definition of Potboiler
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of pot boiler) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potboiler
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potboiler
Literary usage of Potboiler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"... of relying for his earnings upon these very cartoons—though to none of them
that I have seen would it be possible to give the name of " potboiler." . ..."
2. The Bookman (1910)
"But Mary Booth's "History" is but a hasty potboiler, and Martha Lamb's a sort of
Colonial "peerage." In the Dutch and Quaker Colonies John Fiske showed his ..."
3. The Esthetic Basis of Greek Art of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. by Rhys Carpenter (1921)
"In literature plagiarism is held to be anything but a virtue and a pastiche is
accounted worse than a "potboiler." Yet a wholly original, inventive, ..."
4. Parliament: Its History, Constitution and Practice by Courtenay Ilbert (1911)
"... and that word appears to have been the mistake of a scribe for "potboiler."
He was a man who was in a position to boil ..."
5. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"... published by Schlesinger in Berlin under the title "Derniere pensee musicale,"
of which mention has already been made, was no doubt a potboiler. ..."
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