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potty

1

[ pot-ee ]

adjective

, pot·ti·er, pot·ti·est.
  1. Chiefly British Informal. slightly insane; eccentric.
  2. British. paltry; trifling; petty.


potty

2

[ pot-ee ]

noun

, plural pot·ties.
  1. a seat of reduced size fitting over a toilet seat, for use by a small child.
  2. a small metal pot fitting under a potty-chair.
  3. Baby Talk. a toilet.

potty

1

/ ˈpɒtɪ /

noun

  1. a child's word for chamber pot
“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


potty

2

/ ˈpɒtɪ /

adjective

  1. foolish or slightly crazy
  2. trivial or insignificant
  3. foll byabout or on very keen (about)
“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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Derived Forms

  • ˈpottiness, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of potty1

First recorded in 1855–60; pot 1 + -y 1

Origin of potty2

First recorded in 1840–50; pot 1 + -y 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of potty1

C19: perhaps from pot 1
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Example Sentences

There is no time to worry about trivial matters like going on potty walks when I can hunt cicadas instead.

An open letter to the emerging cicadas in my backyardIn my younger days, back in March, I was fully potty-trained.

Though it’s not a forested or highly private space, the Diamond P can’t be beat for its ultra-clean porta potties and superior access to the park.

Utilities have urged customers for years to ignore “flushable” labels on increasingly popular, premoistened wipes used by nursing home staffs, potty-training toddlers and people who shun toilet paper.

The graffiti on a port-a-potty in a gravel pit was, in the opinion of one Washington state resident, a sign that anti-fascists might blow up a nearby dam.

Following the Apatow references, Marge informs Homer that she needs to use the “Porta Potty.”

However, these “potty-mouthed princesses” curse like proverbial sailors to prove a point.

Unless some kind of sky-high musical chairs ensues, anything more than a cursory pre-potty hello could become a little tricky.

Proves that political potty-mouthing is practically our birthright.

I mean, just the potty training of octuplets is enough to cause a mind to snap.

Two thousand six hundred men are hors de combat; and the chivalrous Potty is himself seriously hurt.

Potty, Pipes, and Piffle were very real to me, and lived like actual people in that dim garret.

General Potty, we are glad to assure our readers, will be once more in the saddle before many days.

If Athene hadn't had that potty little legacy left her, she couldn't have done this.

But I on'y git to be 'nouncer one time, 'cause Fanny tellin' me nex' fam'ly have dinnuh-potty make heap o' fun.

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