paintpot

Etymology

From paint + pot.

paintpot means A pot for holding paint. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.

noun

A pot for holding paint.“Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture.”
A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image.“[…] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.”