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Poach vs Loach - What's the difference?

poach | loach |

As a verb poach

is to cook something in simmering water or poach can be (intransitive) to take game or fish illegally.

As a noun loach is

a bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily cobitoidea.

poach

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(es)
  • To cook something in simmering water.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
  • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=1/1 citation , passage=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.}}
  • To be cooked in simmering water
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The white of an egg with spirit of wine, doth bake the egg into clots, as if it began to poach .
  • To become soft or muddy.
  • * Mortimer
  • Chalky and clay lands chap in summer, and poach in winter.
  • To make soft or muddy.
  • Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.
    (Tennyson)
  • (obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
  • (Carew)
  • (obsolete) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
  • * Sir W. Temple
  • his horse poaching one of his legs into some hollow ground
  • (obsolete) To begin and not complete.
  • (Francis Bacon)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (intransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
  • (intransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
  • (intransitive) To cause an employee or customer to switch from a competing company to your own company.
  • Derived terms
    * poachable * unpoached

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    loach

    English

    (Cobitidae)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily Cobitoidea.
  • # The .
  • # A similar fish in one of three other families of Cypriniformes: .
  • Derived terms

    * * hillstream loach * * * * * weather loach