pot-housey

Updated: February 11, 2026

If I strip by myself and not necessary, 'tis rather pot-housey I own; but if we stout chaps strip one and all, why, 'tis the native manners of the country, which no man can gainsay? Hey what did you say, my sonnies?"

Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school