potlikker

See also: Potlikker and pot likker

English

Etymology

From pot +‎ likker.

Noun

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

Pot Liquor or Potlikker?, letter from Zell Miller to the New York Times, February 23, 1982, writing in favor of the spelling “potlikker”.

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