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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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rug?tus, from rug?re (“to roar”).

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

Translations

Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
2. (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
3. (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • What piety forbids the lusty ram
     Or more salacious goat to rut their dam

Synonyms

• (be in mating season): blissom, brim, bull, oestruate
• (have sexual intercourse): do it, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
• (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: groove, furrow

2. (figuratively) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: routine

3. (figuratively) A dull routine.

Translations

Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (transitive) To make a furrow.

Translations

Further reading

• Rut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• RTU, URT, UTR, tur

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• rot (southern Moselle Franconian and Siegerland)

Etymology

From Old High German r?t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/

Adjective

rut (masculine rude or ruhe, feminine rut or ruh, comparative ruder or ruher, superlative et rutste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

Usage notes

• The inflections with loss of -d- are restricted to westernmost Ripuarian.

French

Etymology

From Old French rut, ruit, inherited from Latin rug?tus. Doublet of rugi, past participle of rugir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yt/

Noun

rut m (plural ruts)

1. rut (sexual excitement)

Derived terms

• en rut

Further reading

• “rut” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• rút

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rut]
• Hyphenation: rut
• Rhymes: -ut

Interjection

rut

1. gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German r?t (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German r?t (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?-.

Akin to German rot, Old Saxon r?d, Old Dutch r?d (modern Dutch rood)

Adjective

r?t

1. red