marmite

Oznaczający (English)

1. pot, cooking pot, marmite
2. meal prepared in a cooking pot
3. (slang) (heavy) shell
4. (slang) prostitute, especially one past the first youth, the "flesh pot" of the souteneur

Synonyms

casserole

chaudron

bouilloire

en terre cuite

pot

poterie

poêle

rice cooker

pot de chambre

chaudrière

cocotte

🐔

chaudière

canari

poêle à frire

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/maʁ.mit/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from starofrancuski: marmite

In summary

In Middle French (attested 1388) used in the sense of an earthen or metal cooking-pot; later (17th century) also of bombs or grenades from their resemblance to iron cooking-pots.
Earlier, the noun Old French marmite meant "hypocrite" (attested 1223); the semantic development is explained as the cooking-pot being covered and not revealing its interior (thus being "hypocritical", as compared to e.g. a cooking-pan or a plate).
The etymology of marmite "hypocrite" is explained as a compound of marmotter (“to mutter”) (from an onomatopoeic base mar- "murmur") and mite (“cat”) (an obsolete word for "cat", probably also onomatopoeic, i.e. imitative of meowing, extant only in the compound chattemite), and thus describing a person being evasive by "murmuring" or "meowing" instead of speaking plainly.