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pêche — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • euphoria noun A feeling of intense happiness and excitement, often sudden and short-lived.
  • fish noun A cold-blooded animal that lives in water, breathes through gills, and swims using fins.
  • fishing noun The activity or sport of catching fish.
  • peach noun A soft, juicy fruit with fuzzy yellow-red skin and a large single stone, grown on the Prunus persica tree.
  • sin noun In religious terms, an act that breaks a moral or divine law.

Senses

pêche is used for these senses in English:

  • bunch of fives (British, slang) A punch; a blow with the fist.
  • euphoria An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.
  • fish (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
  • fish (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  • peach (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.

euphoria — full definition

  1. noun A feeling of intense happiness and excitement, often sudden and short-lived.
  2. noun An abnormally elevated mood produced by illness, injury or a drug, sometimes out of keeping with the person's actual situation.

fish — full definition

  1. noun A cold-blooded animal that lives in water, breathes through gills, and swims using fins.
  2. noun The flesh of such an animal, eaten as food.
  3. verb To try to catch fish.
  4. verb To search for or try to obtain something indirectly, often through hints or probing questions.

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