poche

See also: Poche, poché, and póche

French

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French puche (“purse, small bag”), from Frankish *pokka, *pukka (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *puk-, *pūka- (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *buk-, *bu-, *beu- (“to blow, swell”). Reinforced by Old Norse puki, poki (“bag, pocket”), via .

Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pohha, pocca (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), and English pocket; compare also pouch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʃ/

• Audio (France, Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ
• Homophones: pochent, poches

Noun

poche f (plural poches)

1. pocket (part of the clothing)
2. pouch (small bag, or part of small bag)
3. pouch (of a marsupial)
4. pocket (cavity)
5. poach (act of cooking by poaching)
6. the rendering or the act of rendering the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black
7. ladle (container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal)

Derived terms

• acheter chat en poche
• argent de poche
• avoir des poches sous les yeux
• avoir un oursin dans sa poche
• chien de poche
• connaître comme sa poche
• dans la poche
• de poche
• dépocher
• empocher
• en être de sa poche
• faire les poches
• lampe de poche
• les mains dans les poches
• livre de poche
• mettre dans sa poche
• mouchoir de poche
• ne pas avoir les yeux dans sa poche
• ne pas avoir sa langue dans sa poche
• payer de sa poche
• pochable
• pochage
• pochard
• pocharder
• poche des eaux
• pocher
• pochet
• pochetée
• pocheter
• pochetre
• pochette
• pocheuse
• pochis
• pochoir
• pochon
• pochothèque
• porchardise
• rempocher
• s’en mettre plein les poches
• tapocher
• un fou dans une poche

 

Verb

poche

1. inflection of pocher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Adjective

poche (plural poches)

1. (Quebec, informal) lame, boring, dull
2. (Quebec, informal) bad, untalented, sucky

Further reading

• “poche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• chope, chopé

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German

Verb

poche

1. inflection of pochen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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Italian

Determiner

poche

1. feminine plural of poco

Pronoun

poche f pl

1. feminine plural of poco

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpot͡ʃe/ [ˈpo.t͡ʃe]

Verb

poche

1. inflection of pochar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative