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hotpot

hotpot

1 3.3
A stew of meat and potatoes cooked slowly in a covered pot
  • noun
  • /ˈhɑtˌpɑt/
  • UK
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  • At the restaurant, we chose the seafood hotpot, which was filled with fresh shrimp and fish.

Examples

  • Older kids will enjoy cooking their own meals at the table, as diners have to decide between hotpot or barbecue.

    Blog text (15)
  • In any case, to boost morale, we must have... meat and potato hotpot.

  • What, are you like the hotpot master, but an okonomiyaki master?

  • Hold tight, lad, and think of Lancashire hotpot.

  • Hotpot...

  • Having collected extensively around the hotpots of Northern California while a graduate student at Berkeley, I look forward to comparing the species in these northern climes.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • All the carriers would have to cripple 2.2's instant-hotpot feature at the same time to avoid a situation where customers bail to another provider to get it.

    Blog text (12)
  • A humble version of hotpot: you pick your own skewered vegetables and meat from the shelf (from RMB 1) and get staff to boil them together in chicken or pork broth.

    Blog text (27)
  • We enjoyed a delicious meat and potato hotpot that warmed us on the cold winter night.

  • She prepared a traditional Lancashire hotpot for dinner, filled with tender meat and vegetables.

Synonyms

pottage
vshotpot
  • Archaic
2 9.9

A thick soup or stew made from vegetables and sometimes meat, often eaten in the past

is a meat and potatoes dish rather than a vegetable based traditional recipe
hot pot
vshotpot
  • UK
1 2.7

A stew of meat and potatoes cooked slowly in a covered pot

is the single word form rather than two words
savory stew
vshotpot
  • US
1.8

A hot dish where meat and vegetables cook slowly in a tasty liquid

is cooked slowly in a tightly covered pot without focusing on broth
hotchpotch
vshotpot
  • Archaic
8.9

A thick soup with meat and vegetables

is specific to meat and potatoes cooked slowly in a covered pot

How Hearty

casserole
54 2.8
hotpot
  • UK
1 3.3
soup
733 1.0
broth
76 1.0

Surface Forms

hotpot singular
hotpots plural

Morphology

hotpot = hot + pot (transparent) = hot + pot

The compound is a straightforward combination of 'hot' + 'pot' and denotes a hot dish served or cooked in a pot, so the meaning is directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

Hotpot is simply the two words hot ('warm') and pot ('cooking pot'), so it brings to mind a steaming pot of food. That's why hotpot means a slow-cooked meat and potato stew made in one covered pot.