poche

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) pocket (part of the clothing)
2. (feminine) pouch (small bag, or part of small bag)
3. (feminine) pouch (of a marsupial)
4. (feminine) pocket (cavity)
5. (feminine) poach (act of cooking by poaching)
6. (feminine) ladle (container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal)
7. (feminine) 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.

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person) inflection of pocher:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of pocher:

Adj

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

Concepts

pocket

bag

sack

pouch

👝

ladle

moneybag

💰

sac

scoop

web

hip pocket

air hole

turn inside out

airlock

air pocket

bunch

lame

Synonyms

sac

sachet

pochon

nul

🙅

bourse

gousset

louche

petit sac

vessie

blague à tabac

couilles

cuillère à pot

nase

naze

poche de pantalon

sac postal

valise diplomatique

giberne

poche pantalon

marsupium

poche de minerai

poche minéralisée

mastothèque

étui à munitions

besace

sac à porter

débarquer

médiocre

mouche

🪰

nid

panier

🧺

portefeuille

serviette

Translations

Tasche

zak

bolsillo

tasca

bolso

bolsa

butxaca

cep

bolsa

👛

جيب

Sack

Beutel

algibeira

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɔʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French: poche

Inherited from Old French: puche

Cognate with Middle Dutch: poke

Cognate with Swiss German: Pfoch

Cognate with Old English: pohha

Cognate with English: pocket

In summary

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.