Scot. poke, Southwestern U.S. alforja, Obs. budget; saddle bag, sabretache; mail bag, mail pouch; pack, packet, satchel, container, receptacle, reticule, compartment, envelope.
2. budget, purse, pocketbook; resources, means, assets, capital, funds, finances, moneys.
3. cavity, hole, hollow, cave, cavern, crater, cup, scoop, concavity; pit, shaft, chamber, mine, bore, tunnel, excavation; abyss, crevasse; opening, aperture, orifice, fissure, crack, cleft, chink, notch, gap.
4. vein, lode, ore body.
5. cul-de-sac, impasse, bottleneck, blind, Inf blind alley, Inf. deadend; trap, snag, quandary, predicament.
-adj. 6. small, bantam, diminutive, tiny, miniature; portable, compact, (of books) paperback; (all of books) condensed, abbreviated, encapsulated, compendious, abridged.
-v. 7. appropriate, take, assume; swindle, mulct,
shark; peculate, embezzle, Law. defalcate, misappropriate; steal, rob, thieve, pilfer, purloin, finger, filch, Inf. snitch, cabbage, abstract, Chiefly Brit, prig; Euph. borrow, Archaic, nim; shoplift, palm, SI. boost, walk off or away with, Euph. remove; All SI. heist, pinch, hook, swipe, hustle, rip off, crook, cap, lift.
8. suffer, endure, bear, tolerate, brook, brave, take patiently, abide, stand, submit to, put up with; let pass, overlook, disregard, swallow, digest, stomach; face the music, take one's medicine, take it; accept, accommodate oneself to, reconcile oneself to, resign oneself to.
9. conceal, cover, hide, shroud, cloak, veil; screen, mask, disguise, camouflage; withhold, keep to oneself, suppress, bury, bottle up, stifle, smother, muffle; seal up, lock up.
10. confine, enclose, shut in, hem in, surround, bound; set, seclude.
pocketbook, n. 1. handbag, shoulder bag, purse, clutch, evening bag, disco bag; change purse, (in Scottish Highland costume) sporran, wallet, money bag; bag, tote bag, sack, case, pouch, pocket; grip, valise, carpetbag; ditty bag.
2. budget, resources, means, pocket. See pocket (def.
pocketknife, n. jackknife, clasp knife, penknife, folding knife, Swiss Army knife; switchblade.
pococurante, adj. caring little, indifferent, blasd, apathetic, uninterested, incurious, uninquisitive; unconcerned, nonchalant, careless, insouciant; distant, aloof, removed, Laodicean; neutral, unaffected, untouched, unstirred, unmoved, impassive, impassible, dispassionate; spiritless, passionless, unemotional, emotionless, unexcited, uncaring, perfunctory, half-hearted, Archaic. impassionate; lukewarm, cool, chilly, cold; languid, listless, phlegmatic, lethargic, dull; insensible, insensitive, insensate, unfeeling, unsympathetic, un-compassionate.
poem, n. verse composition, lyric, sonnet, villanelle, ode, Class. Prosody, epode, palinode, anacreontic, dithyramb, elegy; rhapsody, epic; rondelet, Prosody. rondeau, Prosody, rondel; pastoral, idyll, eclogue, bucolic, georgic; nuptial song, epithalamion; rhyme, limerick, jingle, doggerel; ditty, song, lay, ballad.
poet, n. poetess, versifier, versemaker, rhymer; imag-ist, vers-librist, lyrist, lyricist, idyllist, sonneteer, ele-gist; balladmonger, bard, minstrel, scop, skald; poetaster, rhymster.
poetic, adj. 1. lyric, lyrical, sonnetlike, idyllic, pastoral, bucolic, georgic, elegiac; rhapsodic, epic; dithy-rambic; metrical, metered, rhythmical, rhythmic, rhyming, sing-song.
2. songlike, singing, musical, melodic, tuneful, melodious; aesthetic, artistic, beautiful, graceful, flowing.