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poe

nounnounattested in dialogue

moon blocks.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of poarchaicAlternative form of po (“chamberpot”).

    He looked for his enamel chamber pot — or poe in local parlance — whose better days had long gone: the handle was broken, there were a few rusted holes, and it was covered with a myriad of spalls. The poison of the fish soon had him vomiting in the poe.

noun

  1. 1

    moon blocks.

    poe divination

Etymology

Derived from the Hokkien 桮 (“poe”)

Forms

plural
poes
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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).