poachy

American  

[poh-chee] / ˈpoʊ tʃi /

adjective

poachier, poachiest

1. (of land) slushy; swampy.

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Other Word Forms

• poachiness
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of poachy

First recorded in 1700–10; poach ² + -y ¹

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Example Sentences

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poachy

So he pet em adrée his poachy, an’ pookered mandy, ‘What’ll tu lel to pi?’

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

And when yuv’s mullo I pet my wast adrée his poachy and there mandy lastered the cigaras. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

I pet em adrée my poachy an’ jailed apré the purge and latched odói my pal’s chavo, an’ he pook’d mandy, ‘Where you jāllin to, kāko?’

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

He lelled the juva to the wardo, and just before she welled odói, she hatched her wast in her poachy, an’ chiv it avree, and the prastramengro hatched it apré. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

Since poach is a somewhat confused homophone, its adjective poachy has no chance against stolchy.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English

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