pottage

«pottage» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: thick soup, stew — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

thick soup, stew

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A thick soup or stew of vegetables, grain, meat or fish, cooked in a pot. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say soup or stew, and "pottage" is found mainly in old texts.

examples

• And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. (Torah GEN.25.29, JPS 1917) tree →
• Then he went and drank up all the soup, and gobbled up all the pottage, and then he saw the cock lying on a plate. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. (Torah GEN.25.34, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

pottage

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 17 (Torah 3, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pottage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.