In the game of hopscotch, a player employs an object to throw into each successive chalked box he/she is trying to pass through. (Some schoolyards had painted hopscotch lines, a real challenge for smaller, younger players.) That object, his/her token, is a player's potsy. In some games potsies required the approval of all players as some potsies were perceived to give a player an unfair advantages.
Player 1: I'll use my wallet as a potsy.
Player 2: Too flat and heavy. It's too much of a sure thing. Pick something else.
Player 2: Too flat and heavy. It's too much of a sure thing. Pick something else.
by Gandalf1936 March 25, 2011
A usually harmless, well-meaning fool or idiot who bumbles through life unaware of how embarassingly ridiculous he or she is.
1)He was such a potsie at the meeting.2)We would have succeeded if the department wasn't managed by a bunch of feckless potsies.3)How can someone so intelligent and beautiful fall for such a potsie? 4)I'm sorry I am late, but I was stuck behind a potsie on the way in.
by August Valenti January 10, 2007
by Jon Ace June 07, 2007
It is the New York term for Hopscotch. It still is in use, certainly by those of a certain age who no longer play the game.
by Egors February 24, 2010
Slang for especially feeling the effects of POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. It basically means dizzy.
Person 1: "Are you gonna be ard walking there?"
Person with POTS: "I don't know... I'm feeling kinda potsy today."
Person with POTS: "I don't know... I'm feeling kinda potsy today."
by zebra_b1tch September 23, 2018
a potsie is a person who acts foolishly in a comical manner, but funny in that you're laughing at him, not with him. a potsie is usually rather dorky, yet likeable.
by lizzie-poo June 17, 2007
by Tim March 18, 2005