pot-girl

See also: potgirl

English

Noun

pot-girl (plural pot-girls)

1. (dated) A girl who works serving customers in an inn or public house.
   • 1905, Arnold Bennett, Tales of the Five Towns:

     […] he turned with practised insolence to a pot-girl in a red shawl who could not have uttered an audible word to save her soul, but who blushed and giggled with pleasure at this mark of attention.

Related terms

• potboy
• potman