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Definition of "pot-walloper" [pot•-wal•lop•er]

  • A voter in certain English boroughs, where, before the passage of the Reform Act 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months. (noun)
  • One who cleans pots; a scullion. (noun)

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Use "pot-walloper" in a sentence
  • "a pot-walloper by capacity, he was a loose-jointed, sniffling creature, heartless and selfish and cowardly, without a soul, in fear of his life of Dan"
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