pogner
Meaning
- (North-America, transitive) to catch
- (North-America, transitive) to grab, to grasp
- (North-America, figuratively, slang) to seize
- (Quebec, figuratively, impersonal, verb) to be arrested or frozen (by a notion or emotion)
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to surprise, to run into, to find out (someone in the act of wrongdoing, someone in hiding)
- (Quebec, transitive) to collide, to hit
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to receive
- (Quebec, slang, transitive) to understand, (figuratively) to get (a joke)
- (Quebec, informal, intransitive) to catch on or become popular, to succeed
- (Quebec, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) to seduce, to have success in interpersonal relationships
- (Quebec, informal, reflexive) to take or acquire something (for oneself)
- (Quebec, informal) to become stuck or jammed (of one object in another, used reflexively)
- (Quebec, reflexive, slang) to argue, to quarrel, to butt heads
- (Quebec, reflexive, slang) to make out, or to make love or have sex
- (Louisiana, slang, transitive) to fool
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɔ.ɲe/
Etymology
From pogne, poing.
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