tin-potty

comparative more tin-potty · superlative most tin-potty

1. Synonym of tin-pot.

   It's a big thing, not a tin-potty little affair.

   1928, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 51, page 473

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   'Tis strange, when one comes to consider the uses / Of bells as a means of attraction, to find / The church, which a feeling of grandeur induces, / Adopting a tin-potty sound of this kind.

   1893, Leonard Raven-Hill, Arnold Golsworthy, The Butterfly (volume 1, page 83)

   St Ethelburga's boasted the most tin-potty bell and the highest ritual of any church in Kingsmouth.

   1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

   Synonyms: tin-pot