pocket watch

See also: pocketwatch and pocket-watch

English

A pocket watch

Alternative forms

• pocketwatch

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Noun

pocket watch (plural pocket watches)

1. A watch carried in the pocket, often with a closing cover and usually attached to a chain.

Translations

watch

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 佗錶／佗表 (to⁴ biu^2-1)

  Mandarin: 懷錶／怀表 (zh) (huáibiǎo)

• Czech: kapesní hodinky f pl
• Finnish: taskukello (fi)
• French: montre à gousset (fr) f
• German: Taschenuhr (de) f
• Hungarian: zsebóra (hu)
• Icelandic: vasaúr n
• Ido: posh-horlojeto (io)
• Ingrian: kormunatunnit
• Italian: orologio da tasca m
• Japanese: 懐中時計 (ja) (かいちゅうどけい, kaichūdokei)
• Kumyk: кисе сагьат (kise sahat)
• Macedonian: џе́бен ча́совник m (džében čásovnik)
• Malay: jam poket
• Polish: zegarek kieszonkowy m
• Portuguese: relógio de bolso m
• Romanian: ceas de buzunar n
• Russian: карма́нные часы́ (ru) m pl (karmánnyje časý)
• Spanish: reloj de bolsillo m, reloj de faltriquera m
• Swedish: fickur (sv) n
• Thai: นาฬิกาพก
• Turkish: cep saati (tr), köstekli saat (tr)
• Volapük: pokaglok (vo)
• Yiddish: קעשענע־זייגערל n (keshene-zeygerl)

See also

• pocket watch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Verb

pocket watch (third-person singular simple present pocket watches, present participle pocket watching, simple past and past participle pocket watched)

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) To jealously obsess over another person's finances or success.

   Pocket watching a high schooler is crazy.

Anagrams

• watch pocket, watchpocket