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A pot so small it makes a teacup feel ambitious.
means A pipkin is a small earthenware or metal cooking pot, usually with a handle, used for heating or stewing modest quantities of food.
from From "pipe" plus the diminutive ending "-kin" — the same little suffix that shrinks a lamb into a lambkin or a nap into a napkin — giving roughly "little pipe-thing." It's an English coinage from a few centuries back, though why exactly a small pot got tangled up with "pipe" is murky; the kinship to "pipe" is plausible but not airtight.
- definition
- A small earthenware or metal cooking pot
- old word
- Used in English since the 1500s
- shipboard use
- Sailors once stewed rations in tiny pipkins
- shape
- Often has a hollow handle for gripping
- surname
- Also a real British family name
for instance
pipkin popplewell — british actor known for goodnight mister tom (1999) and the box of delights (1984)
pipkin creek — tributary of the severn river in gloucestershire, england