pot luck

See also: pot-luck and potluck

English

pot luck (countable and uncountable, plural pot lucks)

Alternative form of potluck
- 1592 (first performance), Thomas Nash[e], A Pleasant Comedie, Called Summers Last Will and Testament‎, imprinted at London: By Simon Stafford, for Walter Burre, published 1600, OCLC 222298685:
  We had but euen pot luck, a little to moyſten our lips, and no more.
- 1857, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “[The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton.] Chapter I”, in Scenes of Clerical Life [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published January 1858, OCLC 977572916, page 22:
  But he never contradicted Mrs Hackit—a woman whose "pot luck" was always to be relied on, and who on her side had unlimited reliance on bleeding, blistering, and draughts.

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