pogner

Meaning

  1. (North-America, transitive) to catch
  2. (North-America, transitive) to grab, to grasp
  3. (North-America, figuratively, slang) to seize
  4. (Quebec, figuratively, impersonal, verb) to be arrested or frozen (by a notion or emotion)
  5. (Quebec, slang, transitive) to surprise, to run into, to find out (someone in the act of wrongdoing, someone in hiding)
  6. (Quebec, transitive) to collide, to hit
  7. (Quebec, slang, transitive) to receive
  8. (Quebec, slang, transitive) to understand, (figuratively) to get (a joke)
  9. (Quebec, informal, intransitive) to catch on or become popular, to succeed
  10. (Quebec, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) to seduce, to have success in interpersonal relationships
  11. (Quebec, informal, reflexive) to take or acquire something (for oneself)
  12. (Quebec, informal) to become stuck or jammed (of one object in another, used reflexively)
  13. (Quebec, reflexive, slang) to argue, to quarrel, to butt heads
  14. (Quebec, reflexive, slang) to make out, or to make love or have sex
  15. (Louisiana, slang, transitive) to fool

Concepts

Frequency

35k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɔ.ɲe/
Etymology

From pogne, poing.

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