pogner
Meanings
Verb
1. to catch (North America, transitive)
2. to grab, to grasp (North America, transitive)
3. to seize (North America, slang, figuratively)
4. to be arrested or frozen (by a notion or emotion) (Quebec, figuratively, impersonal verb)
5. to surprise, to run into, to find out (someone in the act of wrongdoing, someone in hiding) (Quebec, slang, transitive)
6. to collide, to hit (Quebec, transitive)
7. to receive (Quebec, slang, transitive)
8. to understand, (figuratively) to get (a joke) (Quebec, slang, transitive)
9. to catch on or become popular, to succeed (Quebec, informal, intransitive)
10. to seduce, to have success in interpersonal relationships (Quebec, slang, idiomatic, intransitive)
11. to take or acquire something (for oneself) (Quebec, informal, reflexive)
12. to become stuck or jammed (of one object in another, used reflexively) (Quebec, informal)
13. to argue, to quarrel, to butt heads (Quebec, slang, reflexive)
14. to make out, or to make love or have sex (Quebec, slang, reflexive)
15. to fool (Louisiana, slang, transitive)
Examples20
Ma musique pogne pas.
My music isn't catching on.
Il a pogné trois ans de prison.
He got three years of jail time.
Sauve-toi, il va te pogner!
Run, he's going to catch you!
Il l’a pognée par les cheveux.
He grasped it by the hair.
C’est gratuit! Pogne-toi-z-en une couple!
It's free! Take a few!
Il a pogné ses clés puis il est sorti.
He grabbed his keys and then he left.