potlicker
Americannoun
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Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
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Dialect. a worthless or disgusting person or animal.
Example Sentences
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Vermont’s Potlicker Kitchen, for instance, offers shoppers a variety of jellies with a beer base – ranging from IPAs and Oatmeal Stouts to Hefeweizens and Porters.
From Time
Mos' the food was potlicker, jes' common old potlicker; turnip green and the juice, Irish 'taters and the juice, cabbages and peas and beans, jes' anything what make potlicker.
From Project Gutenberg
I's raise on greens and pork and potlicker and 'taters and ash-cake.
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We et yellow bread and greens and black-eyed peas and potlicker and sopped 'lasses.
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For everyday cookin' we has corn pone and potlicker and bacon meat and mustard and turnip greens, and good, old sorghum 'lasses.
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