Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wet and soft; easily penetrated, as by the feet of cattle: said of land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Wet andsoft ; easily penetrated by the feet ofcattle ; said ofland .
Etymologies
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From poach (“to poke, stab”) + -y.
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Examples
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Tom, for instance, was all over the place; all about the poachy Ds and pressure marks.
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Thus they are perpetually using such terminations as _lala_, _nana_, _coachy-poachy_, just as mothers and nurses use them to babies.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Thus they are perpetually using such terminations as _lala_, _nana_, _coachy-poachy_, just as mothers and nurses use them to babies.
Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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