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Pothouse

Definition: Pothouse

Pothouse

Noun

1. (British) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pothouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Synonyms: Pothouse

Synonyms: gin mill (n), pub (n), public house (n), saloon (n), taphouse (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pothouse

English words defined with "pothouse": Mughouse. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pothouse": Penny Lattice-house. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Pothouse

"Pothouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pothouse" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Pothouse

Language Translations for "pothouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pijetore (boozer, grogshop, hotel, pub, watering place), tavernë (tavern), mejhane (dive, greasy spoon, joint, tavern). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

долнопробна кръчма (dive, honky tonk, jerry shop). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καπηλειό (grogshop, pub, public house, tavern). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

othousepay

   

Portuguese

  

espécie de bar (pub), cervejaria (alehouse, beerhouse, brewery, brewing house, gin-mill, pub, public house), casa de vinhos (pub, public house). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пивная (alehouse, ale-house, barrel house, barrel shop, beerhouse, dram-shop, gin mill, gin-shop, hostelry, mug-house, porterhouse, pot-house, pub, public house, rathskeller, taphouse, taproom, watering hole). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

krčma (inn, public house, saloon, taphouse). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ölsjapp (beerhouse). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ucuz meyhane. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pothouse

Derivations

Words beginning with "pothouse": pothouses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pothouse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lohoues, Peghouse, pithouse, poolhouse, porthouse, Posthouse, Pothinus, pothmouse, potous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Pothouse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: housetop.

Words within the letters "e-h-o-o-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: upshoot.

-2 letters: ouphes, photos, soothe, tophes, tophus, upshot.

-3 letters: estop, ethos, hoops, hoots, hopes, house, ouphe, ouphs, pesto, photo, phots, phuts, poets, poohs, pouts, setup, shoot, shote, shout, shute, sooth, south, spout, stoop, stope, stoup, stupe, those, thous, topes, tophe, tophs, topos, touse, upset.

-4 letters: epos, eths, hest, hets, hoes, hoop, hoot, hope, hops.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-o-o-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: housetops, pothouses.

 

+2 letters: phototubes, pilothouse.

 

+3 letters: homopterous, pilothouses, porterhouse, supersmooth.

 

+4 letters: autohypnoses, autotrophies, auxotrophies, photoreduces, porterhouses, urethroscope.

 

+5 letters: autocephalous, boustrophedon, claustrophobe, electrophorus, entomophagous, entomophilous, hematophagous, heteropterous, heterosporous, hymenopterous, luteotrophins, mycetophagous, photocurrents, photogravures, phycomycetous, thermocouples, thermophilous, urethroscopes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pothouse


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 74 68 6F 75 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#116 &#104 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0074 0068 006F 0075 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5081867481878571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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