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Potluck   /pˈɑtlˌək/   Listen
Potluck

noun
1.
Whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all.  "A potluck supper"





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"Potluck" Quotes from Famous Books



... are free from dyspepsia, and to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and to cry for company. I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the potluck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room. I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I ...
— Essays, Second Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson


Words linked to "Potluck" :   meal, repast


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