Po
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
Origin 1
Old English pawa, from West Germanic, from Latin pavo. Cognate with Dutch pauw, German Pfau.
Origin 2
From French pot.
Full definition of po
Noun
po
(plural pos)- (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.