Etymology

pothunter

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Today it means: A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport. Full definition →

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The story

From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.