poche

See also: Poche, poché, and póche

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French poche, from Old French puche, poche (“purse, small bag”), from Frankish *pokkō, *pokō (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *pukô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *buk-, *bu-, *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Reinforced by Old Norse puki, poki (“bag, pocket”), via Old Northern French.

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 (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
• poche-revolver
• 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

German

Verb

poche

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

Italian

Determiner

poche

1. feminine plural of poco

Pronoun

poche f pl

1. feminine plural of poco

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpot͡ʃe/ [ˈpo.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: po‧che

Verb

poche

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