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English

Etymology

From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *poka (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke ("sack or bag"). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?k?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?k?t/
• Hyphenation: pock?et
• Rhymes: -?k?t

Noun

pocket (plural pockets)

1. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
2. Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.

   I paid for it out of my own pocket.

   • 2012, Simon Heffer, "In Fagin's Footsteps", Literary Review, 403:

     There was, for much of the period, no cheap public transport; and even the Underground, or one of Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibuses, was beyond the pocket of many of the poor.

4. (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
5. An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.

   • She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.

6. (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
7. (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
8. (American football) The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.
9. (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
10. (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
11. A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
12. (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
13. (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
14. (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
15. The pouch of an animal.
16. (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
17. A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
18. A bight on a lee shore.
19. (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
20. A small, isolated group or area.

Derived terms

Related terms

• poke

Translations

Further reading

• Pocket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

pocket (third-person singular simple present pockets, present participle pocketing, simple past and past participle pocketed)

1. (transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.
2. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
3. (transitive, slang) To take and keep (something, especially money that is not one's own).

   Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.

4. (transitive, slang) To shoplift; to steal. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.

5. (transitive, slang, dated) To put up with; to bear without complaint.
   • 1810, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Register (page 557)

     As long as the house suffered the practice to prevail, they must submit to pocket the insult of being told that it existed.

Synonyms

• (in billiards, etc): pot
• (take and keep, etc): trouser

Derived terms

• pocket up

Translations

Adjective

pocket (not comparable)

1. Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.

   a pocket dictionary

2. Smaller or more compact than usual.

   pocket battleship, pocket beach

   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

     She ate, drank, worked, danced, and made love in exactly the same way: con brio. She came into the apartment like a pocket hurricane.

3. (Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.

   a pocket pair of kings

Synonyms

• (of a size suitable for a pocket): pocket-size, pocket-sized

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• bag
• pouch
• purse
• sack

References

• “pocket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Cornish

Noun

pocket m (plural pocketow or pocketys)

1. pocket

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pocket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.k?t/
• Hyphenation: poc?ket

Noun

pocket m (plural pockets)

1. A pocket book, a portable book of compact size, usually a paperback.

Derived terms

• pocketwoordenboek

Swedish

Noun

pocket c

1. paperback; book with flexible binding

Declension

Synonyms

• pocketbok

Yola

Alternative forms

• pucket

Etymology

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Noun

pocket

1. a lump of bread

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?, IPA^(key): /be?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English be? (“berry”), as in be?b?am (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin b?ca (“berry”).

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (obsolete) A berry.
2. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
3. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
4. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.

   • 1771, John Trumbull, On the Vanity of Youthful Expectations

     The patriot's honours and the poet's bays.

5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.

Synonyms

• (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
• (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
2. A bank or dam to keep back water.

Synonyms

• (body of water): gulf

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From French baie, from Old French baé, masculine singular past participle of the verb baer, from Medieval Latin bad? (“I am open”). More at bevel, badinage.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
4. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
5. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
6. (rail transport) A bay platform.
7. A bay window.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
3. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

   • Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.

Derived terms

• at bay

Translations

Verb

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

1. (intransitive) To howl.

   • The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.

2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

   to bay the bear
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

Derived terms

• bay at the moon

Translations

Etymology 5

From French baie, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

Adjective

bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

1. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

Derived terms

• bay cat
• Bay Horse
• bay lynx
• En

Translations

Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

1. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

2. A horse of this color.
   • 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding (page 105)

     […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bay.

Translations

See also

• abeyance
• badinage
• baize
• daphne
• voe
• Wikipedia article on bays in geography
• Appendix:Colors
• Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color

Anagrams

• Aby, YBA, aby

Anguthimri

Noun

bay

1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

Noun

bay

1. an address to a male friend

Etymology 2

Compare balay.

Noun

bay

1. a house

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæi/

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

Mutation

Synonyms

• amm, abm
• cussyn

Related terms

• amma, abma

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich

Declension

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Synonyms

• ba
• ban

Hone

Noun

bay

1. dog

Further reading

• Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño.

Noun

bay

1. rebozo

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich, noble

Turkish

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (b¹y¹ /bay/, “rich person, noble”), from Proto-Turkic *b?j (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms in parallel to bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baj/

Noun

bay (definite accusative bay?, plural baylar)

1. (countable) gentleman
2. (title used for a man) Mr.

Declension

Usage notes

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet ??k”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).

Synonyms

• bey
• beyefendi

Derived terms

• albay
• yarbay
• bayan

Adjective

bay (comparative daha bay, superlative en bay)

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

Declension

Synonyms

• zengin (rich)
• varl?kl? (rich)

Antonyms

• yoksul (poor)
• fakir (poor)
• zü?ürt (poor)

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??a(?)j??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *p?r, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *par; cognates include Muong p?l, Bahnar p?r, Pacoh pár and Mon ??? (p?).

Verb

bay • (????, ????)

1. to fly (travel through the air)
2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
3. to fly (travel very fast)
4. to fade away

Derived terms

Adverb

bay

1. with ease; in a fast-paced manner

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (????)

1. trowel

Etymology 3

See bây.

Alternative forms

• bây

Pronoun

bay

1. (informal) you (second-person plural)

Related terms

• mày

References

• "bay" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

Noun

bay

1. handkerchief
2. scarf

Derived terms

• bay cho?a ?e?e
• güex?oa bay

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5