Adjective: tin-potty
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more tin-potty |
| Superlative | most tin-potty |
Sample Sentences
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'Tis strange, when one comes to consider the uses / Of bells as a means of attraction, to find / The church, which a feeling of grandeur induces, / Adopting a tin-potty sound of this kind. [1893, Leonard Raven-Hill, Arnold Golsworthy, The Butterfly (volume 1, page 83)]
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St Ethelburga's boasted the most tin-potty bell and the highest ritual of any church in Kingsmouth. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
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It's a big thing, not a tin-potty little affair. [1928, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 51, page 473:]
Adjectives inflected like tin-potty
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology