potlicker

American  

[pot-lik-er] / ˈpɒtˌlɪk ər /

Or potliker,

noun

1. Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.

2. Dialect. a worthless or disgusting person or animal.

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Example Sentences

Sometimes it was milk and sometimes it would be potlicker.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

I got plenty uv potlicker, peas, and pumpkins.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various

For everyday cookin' we has corn pone and potlicker and bacon meat and mustard and turnip greens, and good, old sorghum 'lasses.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

Dey fed us beef and veg'tables—any kind, jus' name it—and 'low us sop bread in potlicker till de world look level.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

An' sometime they would crumble bread in the potlicker an give us spoons an we would stan' roun' the pot an' eat.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration