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POTBOY
Definition of POTBOY
noun
A boy employed in a plant nursery to tap clay pots with a stick for their ringing sound, indicating whether the plant required watering.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pot + boy.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POTBOY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTBOY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BOOPTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start POTBOY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POTBOY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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