Potch, noun

/pɒtʃ/

Colloquial abbreviation of Potchefstroom, a town in the North-West Province; transferred sense, the university situated there. Also attributive, and combination. Potch-born adjective.

Note:: The full English name of the university is ‘Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education’.

1978 Sunday Times 19 Mar. 18Maties were first to break the ice, and Potch this week admitted a coloured student to its classrooms..a darn sight more progress than there has been on the biggest of all Afrikaans campuses, Tukkies.

1992 C. Leonard in Sunday Times 16 Feb. 6The young Potch-born Afrikaner keeps that distance.

Colloquial abbreviation of Potchefstroom, a town in the North-West Province; transferred sense, the university situated there. Also attributive, and combination. Potch-born adjective.

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potbrood, nounn.pot dance, noun phrasen. phr.

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