poche

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʃ/

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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)

Verb

poche

1. first-person singular present indicative of pocher
2. third-person singular present indicative of pocher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pocher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pocher
5. second-person singular imperative of pocher

Adjective

poche (plural poches)

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

Further reading

• “poche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• chope, chopé

Verb

poche

1. First-person singular present of pochen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of pochen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of pochen.
4. Imperative singular of pochen.

Adjective

poche

1. feminine plural of poco

Pronoun

poche f pl

1. feminine plural of poco

Verb

poche

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pochar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pochar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pochar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pochar.