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Definition of Potsy
1. Noun. A children's game, similar to hopscotch, especially popular in New York. ¹
2. Noun. The puck used in this game, usually made of a flattened tin can. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potsy
1. a children's game [n -SIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potsy
Literary usage of Potsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced by John Bartlett (1906)
"To Henry Reynolds, of Poeti and potsy. For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. ibid. ..."
2. A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1899)
"Nevertheless, in spite of this disaster, the French Government 1 But by the
natives as Andrian potsy, ie "White King. ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... another person the crown of potsy : AVt: have ordered the said pretender,
pseudo-poet, or |ih:Mitom, utterly to vanish and evaporate out oi < his work ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"... Nor yet for sordid gain thy vigor spend ; Yet meet for toe pure realm of potsy.
But through all coming time thy lot shall be To paint blue skies, ..."
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