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potchky

potchky verb: to work in an amateur fashion for little gain.

Verb

potchky (third-person singular simple present potchkies, present participle potchkying, simple past and past participle potchkied)

  1. to work in an amateur fashion for little gain
  2. to tinker

Forms of potchky

third-person singular presentpotchkies
present participlepotchkying
past participlepotchkied
pastpotchkied

Origin of potchky

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאַטשקען (patshken, “to daub, smear”).

Questions about potchky

What does potchky mean?
Potchky means to work in an amateur fashion for little gain.
What part of speech is potchky?
Potchky is a verb.
What is the past tense of potchky?
The past tense of potchky is potchkied.

Words near potchky in the dictionary

  1. potchers
  2. potches
  3. potching
  4. potchkied
  5. potchkies
  6. potchky
  7. potchkying
  8. Potcoava
  9. POTD
  10. potdar
  11. potdars

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