Definitions for pottage

pottage pot·tage

Spelling: [pot-ij]
IPA: /ˈpɒt ɪdʒ/

Pottage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in pottage (aegoptt).

Definitions for pottage

noun

  1. a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat.

Origin of pottage

1175-1225; Middle English potage Old French: literally, something in or from a pot1; see -age

Examples for pottage

The musket that he carried some English fool had sold him for a mess of pottage.

Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."

A knife or fork with horizontal handles does not sit naturally in the curved structure of a trencher or a pottage bowl.

I wish Margaret Louise had not sold her birthright for a mess of pottage.

We do not think so meanly of our country that we are willing to sell it for a mess of pottage.

He is the sprig of bitter herb that makes the pottage wholesome.

He may, to be sure, need the pottage, but the price is too great.

And you regret that the mess of pottage has not been bigger.

The cook has sipped so frequently at the pottage, he will not eat of it when at table.

Cut it in two,” he answered, “and season our pottage with one-half of it at a time.

Word Value for pottage
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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