Po

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pəʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Old English pawa, from West Germanic, from Latin pavo. Cognate with Dutch pauw, German Pfau.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A peacock.

From French pot.

Full definition of po

Noun

1. (UK, Australia, NZ, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.
• 1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3305-8, %22pos%22+-po+chamberpot+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22po%22|%22pos%22+-po+chamberpot+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YpzdT_bzFsWjiAfV7emRCg&redir_esc=y page 67,‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.
• 1989, Leonard Woolf, Frederic Spotts (editor), Letters of Leonard Woolf, %22pos%22+-po+chamberpot+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22po%22|%22pos%22+-po+chamberpot+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YpzdT_bzFsWjiAfV7emRCg&redir_esc=y page 86,There are always several spitoons & pos pots about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.

Anagrams

• op, op., OP