potlikker
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See also: Potlikker and pot likker
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
potlikker (usually uncountable, plural potlikkers)
- Alternative spelling of pot liquor
- 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), pages 21–22:
- Mabel had given the girl her own supper portion and spooned potlikker and roots into her trembling lips until she opened her eyes again.
References[edit]
- Pot Liquor or Potlikker?, letter from Zell Miller to the New York Times, February 23, 1982, writing in favor of the spelling “potlikker”.