potch
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of potch
C20: of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Books like this are always a hotch-potch, but here the potch is well and truly hotched.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2012
He was carefully working round a brilliantly fired seam through black potch in the shin cracker he had been breaking through two or three days before.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
And all there was for them under Mr. Armitage's system was three or four pounds a week—and not a bit of potch, nor a penny in the quart pot for their old age.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
"That's a nice bit of colour, Michael," he said, admiring a small piece of grey potch with a black strain which flashed needling rays of green and gold.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
He was potch, poor opal, stuff of no particular value, without any fire.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
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