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English
Etymology
poach + -er
Pronunciation
Noun
poacher (plural poachers)
- A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.
- A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water
- (soccer) An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
2011 January 16, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan.
- Any of type of fish in the family Agonidae, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.
- (US, dialect) An American wigeon (Anas americana).
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a person who trespasses in order to take game illegally
- Arabic: صَيَّاد غَيْر قَانُونِيّ (ṣayyād ḡayr qānūniyy)
- Armenian: որսագող (hy) (orsagoġ)
- Assamese: চোৰাং চিকাৰী (süraṅ sikari)
- Bulgarian: бракониер (bg) m (brakonier)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 偷獵者／偷猎者 (zh) (tōulièzhě)
- Czech: pytlák (cs) m
- Danish: krybskytte (da) c
- Dutch: stroper (nl) m
- Finnish: salametsästäjä (fi)
- French: braconnier (fr) m, braconnière (fr) f
- Georgian: ბრაკონიერი (braḳonieri)
- German: Wilderer (de) m, Wilddieb (de) m, Freischütz (de) m
- Hungarian: orvvadász (hu), vadorzó (hu)
- Italian: bracconiere (it) m
- Japanese: 密猟者 (みつりょうしゃ, mitsuryōsha) (game), 密漁者 (みつりょうしゃ, mitsuryōsha) (fish)
- Kazakh: браконьер (brakoner), қаскер (qasker)
- Lithuanian: brakonierius m
- Macedonian: лово́крадец m (lovókradec), криво́ловец m (krivólovec)
- Maori: kaihaumi
- Norman: braconnyi m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: krypskytter m
- Nynorsk: krypskyttar m
- Polish: kłusownik (pl) m
- Portuguese: caçador furtivo m
- Russian: браконье́р (ru) m (brakonʹjér)
- Scottish Gaelic: poidsear m
- Slovak: pytliak m
- Spanish: (game) cazador furtivo m, (fish) pescador furtivo m, (logging) leñador furtivo m, (logging) talador furtivo m, (usually an adjective) furtivo (es) m, (gathering) recolector furtivo m, reducidor silvestre m, furtivista m
- Swedish: tjuvskytt (sv) c, tjuvjägare (sv) c
- Ukrainian: браконьє́р (uk) m (brakonʹjér)
- Volapük: (♂♀) jibiravan (vo), (♂) jibihiravan, (♀) jibijiravan, (♂♀) mifanan, (♂) himifanan, (♀) jimifanan
- Walloon: bracnî (wa) m, bracniresse f, bracneu (wa) m, afuteu (wa) m
- Welsh: herwheliwr m
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