Word of the Day: IDEA-POT

ETYMOLOGY
from idea + pot

EXAMPLE
“…Going t’other day to the bookseller’s with my idea-pot brim-full, and ready to run over, I stole up, as usual, into the Author’s Coenaculum. – This, by the bye, is an apartment at the top of BARRETT’s house in he High-Street…”

From: The Student
Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, Volume 2
The Adventures of a Goose-Quill, Oxford, March 2, 1751

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