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Definition of Potch
1. v. i. To thrust; to push.
2. v. t. See Poach, to cook.
Definition of Potch
1. Verb. To thrust. ¹
2. Verb. To trample. ¹
3. Noun. (chiefly Australia mineralogy gemmology) A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potch
1. to trample in mud [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potch
Literary usage of Potch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation by Andrew Lang (1902)
"... "a mere hotchpotch "—" hotch-potch " being the name of an excellent broth of
promiscuous elements. He wished that—(1) the communicants should kneel, ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... queer hotch-potch, The Coalition. The Authors Cry and Prayer. M'Kenzle [author
of "The Man of Feeling"]. M'K[enzi]e, S[tuar]t, such a brace As Rome ..."
3. Red Russia by John Foster Fraser (1907)
"Petroleum Everywhere—A Hotch-potch Community—A Fight in the Street—Pistols Big
and Little—A Drunken Gendarme— Fighting in the Armenian Quarter—Indifference ..."
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