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pot liquor

or pot-liquor

noun

  1. Midland and Southern U.S. the broth in which meat or vegetables, as salt pork or greens, have been cooked.


pot liquor

noun

  1. the broth in which meat, esp pork or bacon, and vegetables have been cooked
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pot liquor1

First recorded in 1735–45
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Example Sentences

I gave him a dose of syrup of buckthorn, and put him on a diet of pot-liquor and vegetables till further orders.

Exhorters or zorters and pot liquor preachers were still more numerous.

Use the pot-liquor in which it was boiled, with quarter of a pound of rice, for the next morning's breakfast.

Every particle of grease rescued from pot liquor, or fat from meat, was utilized for candle-making.

For this state of the part, Blaine, who is therein followed by Youatt, recommends "pot liquor."

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