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Noun
New York city records reportedly show that Cortez died on May 31, 2022 at his home in the Bronx and that he is buried in a potter’s field off the coast of the borough, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves.—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 July 2025 The site is what some people would call a potter’s field, and others would refer to as a mass grave.—Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
Verb
One rainy afternoon, the kindly octogenarian — wrapped in a warm leopard print jumper — stops pottering around and sinks into her favorite chair to call her daughter.—David Opie, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2025 This was a frequent chorus from my siblings and me as children, as our grandmother pottered about the kitchen chewing on a stick that looked a bit like sugarcane, fixing a drink brewed with honey and lemon.—Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for potter
Word History
Etymology
Verb
probably frequentative of English dialect pote to poke
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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