poach

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpoʊtʃ/

Verb

poach (poaches, present participle poaching; past and past participle poached)

1. (transitive) To cook something in simmering liquid.
2. (intransitive) To be cooked in simmering liquid
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries

     The white of an egg with spirit of wine, doth bake the egg into clots, as if it began to poach.

3. To become soft or muddy.

   • Chalky and clay lands […] chap in summer, and poach in winter.

4. To make soft or muddy.

   Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.

5. (obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
6. (obsolete) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.

   • his horse poaching one of his legs into some hollow ground

7. (obsolete) To begin and not complete.

Translations

• French: pocher
• German: pochieren
• Portuguese: escalfar
• Spanish: escalfar

Noun

poach (plural poaches)

1. The act of cooking in simmering liquid.
   • 2005, Jill Dupleix, Good Cooking: The New Basics (page 152)

     Peaches are so perfect they need very little to make them extra special—just a quick poach in basil-scented rosé wine and a few adoring strawberries.

Verb

poach (poaches, present participle poaching; past and past participle poached)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.

Translations

• French: braconner
• German: wildern
• Italian: cacciare di frodo, pescare di frodo
• Portuguese: caçar/pescar furtivamente
• Russian: занима́ться браконьерство
• Spanish: (gathering) recolectar furtivamente, (logging) talar furtivamente, (fishing) pescar furtivamente, (hunting) cazar furtivamente, (poaching) practicar furtivismo

Translations

• Spanish: quitar furtivamente, hurtar

Translations

• French: débaucher (employee), détourner (customer)
• German: abwerben
• Italian: assumere
• Russian: перема́нивать
• Spanish: cazar cabeza

Noun

poach (plural poaches)

1. The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return.

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