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Potage (Jean)

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The Jack Pudding of the French stage; very like the German “Hanswurst,” the Dutch “Pickel herringe,” and the Italian “Macaroʹni.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Posting-Bills
Posy
Pot
Pot-boilers
Pot-luck
Pot Paper
Pot-Pourri (French)
Pot Valiant
Pot-de Bière
Pot of Hospitality (The)
Potage (Jean)
Potato-bogle
Potato-bury (A)
Potato-talk. (German, Kartoffel gesprach.)
Poteen (pron. pu-teen)
Pother
Pothooks
Potiphar’s Wife
Pots
Potter
Potwallopers