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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1820

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POTTINGER, n.2 A cook, chef. Now only arch or hist., except as a personal surname. [′pɔtmdʒər]Sc. 1820 Scott Monastery xvi.:
[The] pastry-meat will scarce have had the just degree of fire which learned pottingers prescribe as fittest for the body.

[O.Sc. potingar, id., a.1572; as a surname Potyngeir, 1522, Mid.Eng. Potyngar, a variant after messenger, passenger, of Fr. potager, “a maker of potage or soup”.]

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