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poached

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//pəʊtʃt//
  • United States//poʊt͡ʃt//

Cooked by poaching.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of poachsimple past and past participle of poach

adjective

  1. 1

    Cooked by poaching.

    Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.

  2. 2

    Obtained by poaching.

Forms

comparative
more poached
superlative
most poached
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).