Meaning & use

jampot

noun·Everyday

British informal term for a small jar used to store jam.

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She scraped the last of the jam from the bottom of the jampot.

He kept loose change in an old jampot on the kitchen windowsill.

A note on using this word

Jampot is casual British vocabulary; American English almost always says 'jam jar' instead.

Words with a similar meaning

jam jar

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