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# pottage

«pottage» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **thick soup, stew** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

thick soup, stew

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A thick soup or stew of vegetables, grain, meat or fish, cooked in a pot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pottage/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say soup or stew, and "pottage" is found mainly in old texts.

### examples

- And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. (Torah GEN.25.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pottage/#x1)
- Then he went and drank up all the soup, and gobbled up all the pottage, and then he saw the cock lying on a plate. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pottage/#x2)
- And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. (Torah GEN.25.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pottage/#x3)

### primary record

pottage

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 17 (Torah 3, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.726/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pottage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pottage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.