potted

English

Etymology

Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" 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".

Pronunciation
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Verb

potted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pot

Adjective

potted (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
    The company released a potted statement.
  2. (slang) Drunk.

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Further reading
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