different between potto vs potty

English

Etymology

From a West African language; compare Akan ap?s?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?t??/

Noun

potto (plural pottos)

1. A small primate, Perodicticus potto, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. [from 18th c.]
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 147:

     The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos, bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish.

2. (now rare) The kinkajou. [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• false potto, Martin's false potto (Pseudopotto martini)

Translations

Italian

Noun

potto

1. potto (Perodicticus potto)

   Synonym: Bosman's potto

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ti/

  Rhymes: -?ti

Etymology 1

From pot (“chamberpot”) +? -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

potty (plural potties)

1. (diminutive) A chamber pot, particularly (children) the pot used when toilet-training children.
2. (diminutive) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (other places for urination and defecation): See Thesaurus:toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

• go potty, potty parity, porta-potty, potty humor, potty mouth, potty language

Translations

Verb

potty (third-person singular simple present potties, present participle pottying, simple past and past participle pottied)

1. (intransitive, childish) Synonym of go potty

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Adjective

potty (comparative pottier, superlative pottiest)

1. (informal) Insane.

   The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty.

2. (golf) Easy to pot the ball on.
   • 1890, Golf...: A Weekly Record of "ye Royal and Auncient" Game

     The Eastbourne Green is by no means a " potty " one, and happily belies its appearance.

   • 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon

     "A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and the seventh holes take some doing. You could manage it, though," he said encouragingly.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insane

Translations