potsy

[pot-see]

noun

1. hopscotch.

Word History and Origins

Origin of potsy¹

First recorded in 1930–35; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

Potsy Ponciroli’s “Motor City,” a brutal blood-pumper set in 1970s Detroit, has a great conceit: such an exaggeration of strong-and-silent machismo that the movie only has five lines of dialogue.

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The familiarity of western thriller ‘Old Henry’ is elevated by Tim Blake Nelson’s fine performance and filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli’s flair for suspense.

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The writer-director Potsy Ponciroli sometimes gets too ripe in giving the dialogue a stylized twang, and the plot burdens itself with iconography it can’t support.

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I have no idea if filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli wrote the coiled, small-scale western “Old Henry” for Nelson’s particular gifts with frontier authenticity — again, he’s the guy in the movie’s name, only this time a full-on lead — but it sure does seem like Ponciroli did.

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They played potsy, humming “The Soldiers’ Chorus” from Faust which they called “Glory.”

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