pothunter
Meanings
Plural: pothunters
Noun
- a nonprofessional archeologist
- someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies
- someone who hunts for food (not for sport)
- A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.
- A person who competes solely to win prizes.
- A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importance.
Origin / Etymology
From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.
Scrabble Score: 14
pothunter is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpothunter is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pothunter is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
pothunter is a valid Words With Friends word