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Is poteen a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word poteen is a Scrabble US word. The word poteen is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

P3O1T1E1E1N1

Is poteen a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word poteen is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

P3O1T1E1E1N1

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Yes. The word poteen is a Words With Friends word. The word poteen is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

P4O1T1E1E1N2

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6-letter words (1 found)

POTEEN,

5-letter words (2 found)

NETOP,TOPEE,

4-letter words (18 found)

ETEN,NEEP,NETE,NOPE,NOTE,OPEN,PEEN,PENE,PENT,PEON,POET,PONE,PONT,POTE,TEEN,TENE,TONE,TOPE,

3-letter words (19 found)

EEN,ENE,EON,NEE,NEP,NET,NOT,ONE,OPE,OPT,PEE,PEN,PET,POT,TEE,TEN,TOE,TON,TOP,

2-letter words (12 found)

EE,EN,ET,NE,NO,OE,ON,OP,PE,PO,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 53 words from poteen according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of poteen

poteen

Etymology

From Irish poitín (“little pot; poteen”), from pota (“pot”) (from Middle English potte, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“type of vessel”)) + -ín (“suffix forming diminutives”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /pəˈtiːn/
  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /pəˈtiːn/, /ˈpɒ.tiːn/, /-tjiːn/, /-t͡ʃiːn/
  • Rhymes: -iːn
  • Hyphenation: pot‧een

Noun

poteen (countable and uncountable, plural poteens)

  1. (Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine. [from early 19th c.]
    • 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, →ISBN, page 243:
      Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning ‘brisk’? Nay, here the Language warps: / ’Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
  2. (Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.

Alternative forms

  • poitin
  • potcheen
  • potheen
  • potteen

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References

Further reading

  • poitín on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Petone, pontee

Manx

Noun

poteen m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. poteen

Mutation

Spanish

Verb

poteen

  1. inflection of potear:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Source: wiktionary.org