pocher

From Old French pochier (“enclose in a bag”), from poche (“pocket, bag”).

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ʃe/

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pocher

1. (chiefly of an eye) to punch

   Coordinate term: crever

   pocher un œil à quelqu’un, donner un œil au beurre noir à quelqu’un ― to punch someone in the eye, to give someone a black eye

2. (cooking) to poach; to cook by poaching
3. to sketch; to make a sketch of

• pochage

• “pocher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• choper, proche

pocher m (invariable)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of poker
   • 1943, Giorgio Scerbanenco, Si vive bene in due, Milan: La nave di Teseo editore, published 2022, page 71:

     Aprì la porta d’ingresso con lentezza, come il giuocatore di pocher spia le carte che ha in mano chiedendo al destino un punto alto.

     He opened the front door slowly, like a poker player takes a look at his hand, asking Destiny for a high-rank hand.

   • 2018, Antonio Cavani, Moreno Maffucci, Un partigiano sulla Linea Gotica: Il diario di “Tasso”‎, Lucca: Argot edizioni, →ISBN, page 94:

     Non una casa del paese è stata risparmiata dalla furia devastatrice della guerra, ed in quelle poche abitabili possiamo trovare gruppi di americani che fumando giocano a dadi, o a “pocher”

     Not one house has been spared from the devastating rage of the war, and, in the few habitable ones, we can find groups of Americans playing dice, or poker, while smoking

• pocher in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Old French pochier (“to poke”).

pocher

1. (chiefly of an eye) to poke

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pochier, supplement)

Borrowed from French poker, from English poker.

pocher n (plural pochere)

1. poker (card game)