Potch vs Porch - What's the difference?
potch | porch |
To thrust.
* (editors), ''Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare: The Plays of Shakespeare , Volume 3: Tragedies,
To trample.
* 1837 , John Orville Taylor, The Farmer?s School Book ,
(chiefly, Australia, mineralogy, gemmology) A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.
* 1982 , Gemmological Association of Great Britain, The Journal of Gemmology , Volume 18,
* 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 75,
* 2006 , Michael O'Donoghue, Gems: Their Sources, Descriptions and Identification , 6th Edition, Elsevier, UK,
(to cook in simmering water).
* 1627 , , Sylva Sylvarum: Or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries , 1670,
* 1849 , , Thomas Johnson (translator), Adriaan van den Spiegel (additional tractates), Concerning the Plague'', ''The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambro?e Parey ,
* 1860 , Notes and Queries'', ''The Medical Times and Gazette , Volume 1: For 1860,
(architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
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A portico; a covered walk.
As nouns the difference between potch and porch
is that potch is (chiefly|australia|mineralogy|gemmology) a type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling while porch is (architecture) a covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.As a verb potch
is to thrust or potch can be (to cook in simmering water).potch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; akin to (poach).Verb
page 83,
- I'll potch at him some way, / Or wrath or craft may get him.
page 116,
- Afterwards, the second pasture should be treated in the same manner, and the rest in course, feeding the wettest pasture after the driest, that the soil may be less potched .
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)page 432,
- Discusses the difference between potch' opal and common opal. The terms are often used synonymously, but this writer shows that ' potch is found only in association with precious opal and differs from common opal in its structure quite substantially.
- She set them down with precision, she set them down with the same kind of care that Bernie took when he and his underlings cut opal, or when they polished the rough stones, or when they bonded opal veneer on to potch .
page 321,
- Likewise, a thin piece of good opal on potch' (opal with no play of colour) may be cut so that the ' potch acts as a backing.
Etymology 3
Verb
(es)- (Wiseman)
page 14,
- The Yolks of Eggs'' are of them?elves ?o well prepared by ''Nature'' for nourishment, as (?o they be Potched , or Rear boyled) they need no other preparation or mixture; yet they may be taken al?o raw, when they are new laid, with ''Malm?ey'' or ''Sweet Wine .
page 553,
- Eggs potched and eaten with the juice of Sorrel, are verie good. Likewi?e Barlie-water ?ea?oned with the grains of a tart Pomgranat, and if the Fever bee vehement, with the ?eeds of white Poppie.
page 167,
- And if a man should break his fast with a light and nourishing meate, then I say there is nothing better than a couple of egges potched , or the yolkes of two egges sodden rere and put in one shell, seasoned with a little pepper, butter and salt, supped off warme, drinking after it a good draught of claret wine.