different between potty vs plotty

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

English

Etymology

plot +? -y

Adjective

plotty (comparative plottier, superlative plottiest)

1. (informal, of a book, film, story) Having a complicated plot.