Potted vs Wotted - What's the difference?
potted | wotted |
(pot)
(derogatory, informal) Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
(wot)
(archaic) To know.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XII:
* 1855 , John Godfrey Saxe, Poems , Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121:
* 1866 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads , 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866:
* 1889 , William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains , Inkling Books 2003, p. 241:
(wit)
what (humorous misspelling intended to mimic certain working class accents )
* 1859', Then, '''wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so. — Charles Dickens, ''A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
As verbs the difference between potted and wotted
is that potted is past tense of pot while wotted is past tense of wot.As an adjective potted
is prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.potted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- The company released a potted statement.
wotted
English
Verb
(head)wot
English
Etymology 1
An extension of the present-tense form of (m) (verb) to apply to all forms.Verb
(en-verb)- He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
- She little wots , poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.
- They wot not who make thither [...].
- Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were [...].
Etymology 2
From (m), in return from (etyl) (m).Verb
(head)Etymology 3
Representing pronunciation.Interjection
(en interjection)- Wot , no bananas? (popular slogan during wartime rationing)