poach.
To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
Meaning & usage
To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
To be cooked in such manner.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pochen (“to poach (eggs)”), from Old French pocher "to put (egg yolks) in pockets" (i.e. in bags formed by the whites), from Old French poche (“pocket”).
The act of cooking in simmering liquid.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pochen (“to poach (eggs)”), from Old French pocher "to put (egg yolks) in pockets" (i.e. in bags formed by the whites), from Old French poche (“pocket”).
To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
To take game or fish illegally.
To take anything illegally or unfairly.
To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
to poach in foreign academic disciplines
To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
To make soft or muddy by trampling.
Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.
To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
To stab; to pierce; to spear or drive or plunge into something.
Where this word comes from
From Old French pocher, pochier (“to trample, poach into”). Doublet of poke.
The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return.
Where this word comes from
From Old French pocher, pochier (“to trample, poach into”). Doublet of poke.
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