Potterholic

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noun

One who loves the Harry Potter series of books and films.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounPotterholic (plural Potterholics)

plural Potterholics

  1. informalOne who loves the Harry Potter series of books and films.

    My eight-year-old, as die-hard a Potterholic as they come, a kid who can probably remember Hogwarts minutiae that even JK has forgotten, walked out of the multiplex and gave it a five out of 10.

    2001 November 25, Charlie Fletcher, “Has Potter movie magic lost its spell?”, in Scotland on Sunday
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    By the time the doors were ready to open, the Potterholics had managed to transform the bland room, with its gray-knotted carpet and vaulted ceiling, into a dark and chapelesque space, hung with streamers and Hogwarts house banners, and a looped clip of floating candles from the Harry Potter movies playing on the wall.

    2008, Melissa Anelli, Harry, A History, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 103

    As a 'Potterholic' myself, clad in a Gryffindor scarf, wand tucked into my front pocket, armed with the first and best tickets for the first showing, I waited impatiently for the movie to begin.

    2010, Sangeetha Alagappan, “Casting a spell over Bahrain”, in Gulf Weekly, Volume 9, Issue 47, 24 November - 30 November 2010

    Synonyms: Potterhead, Potterite, Pottermaniac, Potterphile

Synonyms & antonyms

nounOne who loves the Harry Potter series of books and films.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*puttaz
  2. Old Englishpott
  3. Proto-Germanic*puttaz
  4. Frankish*pott
  5. Vulgar Latinpottum
  6. Old Frenchpot
  7. Middle Englishpot
  8. Middle EnglishPotter
  9. EnglishPotter
  10. Akkadian𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)
  11. Aramaicכוחלא (kuḥlā)
  12. Arabicكُحْل (kuḥl)
  13. Andalusian Arabicكُحُول (kuḥūl)
  14. Medieval Latinalcoho
  15. Middle Englishalcofol
  16. Englishalcohol
  17. Englishalcoholic
  18. EnglishPotterholic

From Potter + -holic.

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APA

Potterholic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Potterholic

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Chicago

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