pochard

• poachard, pocard

Apparently originally from poach (“to poke”) +‎ -ard. Compare poker.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊtʃəd/, /ˈpɒtʃəd/

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pochard (plural pochards)

1. Any of various diving ducks of the subfamily Aythyinae (genera Aythya and Netta), especially the common pochard, Aythya ferina.

• (diving duck): scaup

• Baer's pochard (Aythya baeri)
• broad-billed pochards (Aythya spp.)
• common pochard (Aythya ferina)
• dabbling pochards (Netta spp.)
• ferruginous pochard (Aythya nyroca)
• Madagascar pochard (Aythya innotata)
• narrow-billed pochards (Netta spp.)
• northern pochard (Aythya ferina)
• red-crested pochard (Netta ruffina))
• rosybill pochard, rosy-billed pochard (Netta peposaca)
• southern pochard (Netta erythrophthalma)

• pochard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anatidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Anatidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From poche +‎ -ard.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ʃaʁ/

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pochard m (plural pochards, feminine pocharde)

1. (colloquial) drunk, drunkard

• “pochard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012