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potted

Rhymes with -ɒtɪd

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From pot + -ed. Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" by analogy with potted meat (canned meat), first used in a published work by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic Thinking to some purpose (1939), where "potted thinking" is defined as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking".

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of pot potted meat

adjective

not comparable, of a plant Grown or planted in a plant pot. Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day.
informal, not comparable Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting. The company released a potted statement.
Similar: prepared
not comparable, slang Drunk.
Similar: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten
not comparable, of a biographical or historical account Expressed in a relatively short, brief form. a potted history

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@misc{potted_2026,
  title = {potted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/potted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}