pottlepot noun2 •(no longer used) A pot or vessel containing two quarts (four pints), especially one used to hold alcohol.... and help her with the yeast , and filling the pottlepots of ale out of the tubs. — 1848 •(no longer used) An alcoholic, a drunkard."Thou art no man (she saith) —thou art a Pottlepot!" "No man," I saith. "No man!" she saith. And "Pottlepot" thereto! "Thou sleepest like our dog all day; thou drink'st as fishes do." — 1894 formspottlepots