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a humble vessel that's held dinner, fortunes, and entire civilizations' worth of trouble.
means A rounded container, typically deep, used for cooking, storing, or holding things — and by extension the money staked in gambling or pooled for a shared purpose.
from From Old English 'pott,' a word shared widely across the Germanic and Romance languages — Old French 'pot,' Medieval Latin 'pottus' — which makes its ultimate source murky, since everyone seems to have borrowed it from everyone else. The cooking-vessel sense is ancient; the gambling 'pot' (the heap of stakes on the table) emerged much later by obvious analogy — the container that holds the winnings. The slang sense meaning cannabis is a separate, 20th-century arrival, likely a clipping of the Mexican Spanish 'potiguaya,' and unrelated to the kitchenware.
- oldest tech
- Pottery predates farming, metal, and the wheel.
- poker root
- The gambling pot named the plant slang, not vice versa.
- melting metaphor
- America's melting pot phrase debuted in a 1908 play.
- watched paradox
- A watched pot does boil, just feels slower.
cannabis sativa — psychoactive plant species containing thc, used recreationally and medicinally across 24+ countries where it's legal
the pot coffee shop — famous cannabis dispensary in amsterdam's red light district, operating since 1985
pot limit omaha — poker variant where maximum bet equals the pot size, played competitively at world series of poker since 1984