pot luck
English
Noun
pot luck (countable and uncountable, plural pot lucks)
- Alternative form of potluck.
- 1592 (first performance), Thomas Nash[e], A Pleasant Comedie, Called Summers Last Will and Testament[1], imprinted at London: By Simon Stafford, for Walter Burre, published 1600, →OCLC:
- We had but euen pot luck, a little to moyſten our lips, and no more.
- 1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 30:
- A pretty way to conciliate ‘little tempers’ indeed, to add to the offence of spoiling the fish the crime of bringing an unexpected friend to eat it. Pot luck, quotha, when the pot's boiled over this half hour!
- 1857, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “[The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton.] Chapter I”, in Scenes of Clerical Life [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published January 1858, →OCLC, page 22:
- But he never contradicted Mrs Hackit—a woman whose "pot luck" was always to be relied on, and who on her side had unlimited reliance on bleeding, blistering, and draughts.