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drip pot

drip pot

3.5
A coffee pot that makes coffee by letting hot water slowly pass through ground coffee
  • noun
  • /drɪp pɑt/
translation icon : cafetera de goteo
  • The drip pot allows hot water to flow evenly through the coffee grounds.

Examples

  • I brewed a fresh pot of coffee in my drip pot this morning.

  • Fred put the boiling water into the drip pot.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • But my own guests would walk over and retrieve theirs from the automatic drip pot.

    Academic text (2004)
  • I use the Solo Fill reusable K-cups, and actually save money on coffee over using my old drip pot.

    Blog text (10)
  • She prefers using a drip pot to brew her coffee because it enhances the flavor.

Synonyms

coffee maker
vsdrip pot
15 1.0

A machine that brews coffee by itself

focuses on slow water passing through grounds for drip brewing
coffeemaker
vsdrip pot
9 2.1

A machine that makes coffee at home or work

specifies the slow drip process rather than any brewing way
coffeepot
vsdrip pot
5 1.0

A tall container with a spout for making and serving coffee

is designed for making coffee by slow water flow through grounds

How Fast

drip pot
3.5

Surface Forms

drip pot singular
drip pots plural

Morphology

drip + pot

The meaning 'a pot used for drip coffee' is directly and literally derivable from 'drip' (a tiny falling drop) + 'pot' (a vessel); it denotes a pot that makes coffee by dripping water through grounds. This straightforward noun–noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic naming pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Drip pot comes from the simple picture of a pot where hot water drips through the coffee grounds into a container below. Because of that slow 'dripping' way of making coffee, a drip pot now means a coffeepot made to brew coffee by letting water pass slowly through the grounds.