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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of potch.

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Examples

  • Take a Pint of Red Cows milk, then take the Yolk of a new laid Egg potched very rare, then stir it into the Milk over a soft fire, but do not let it boil, sweeten it with a little Sugar Candy, and drink it in the morning fasting, and when you go to bed.

    The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex Hannah Wolley

  • And then the Renaissance of pagan types, from which the Gothic had derived its being by a rational development, was by the revivalists of those days hotch-potched into a more or less homogeneous mass, which even the genius of Wren could leave but coldly pedantic.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See 1903

  • You nip out of the car to fill it up with petrol and on your return the radio is on and a perky four year old pipes up "I got the radio to work Mamgu" Take into account that I had fiddled and potched about with that radio for a good 10 mins and not a peep ....

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

  • You nip out of the car to fill it up with petrol and on your return the radio is on and a perky four year old pipes up "I got the radio to work Mamgu" Take into account that I had fiddled and potched about with that radio for a good 10 mins and not a peep ....

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

  • You nip out of the car to fill it up with petrol and on your return the radio is on and a perky four year old pipes up "I got the radio to work Mamgu" Take into account that I had fiddled and potched about with that radio for a good 10 mins and not a peep ....

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

  • Preservativation (Game and Poultry) Act, playing lallaryrook cookerynook, by the dodginess of his lentern, brooled and cocked and potched in an athanor, whites and yolks and yilks and whotes to the frulling fredonnance of Mas blanca que la blanca hermana and Amarilla, muy bien, with cinnamon and locusts and wild bees-wax and liquorice and Carrageen moss and blaster of Barry’s and

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Veal sweetbreads, stew’d Spinage, with potched Eggs and

    English Housewifery 2004

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