pooch

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puːt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -uːtʃ

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. One (unsubstantiated) conjecture is that the word comes from Putzi, a common German name given to lapdogs. The name Putzi is possibly formed from German Putz + -i, influenced by German putzig (“funny, cute, small”, adjective).

Noun

pooch (plural pooches)

1. (slang) A dog.
   • 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:

     My thoughts are disturbed by a man and pooch trying to get off the front of the train. Despite hitting the door button, they refused to open.

2. A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel.

Derived terms

• screw the pooch

Translations

slang: dog

• Catalan: quissa m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狗 (zh) (gǒu)

• Danish: hund (da) c
• Dutch: vuilnisbakkie n
• Finnish: piski (fi), murre (fi)
• French: clébard (fr) m, cabot (fr) m, sac à puces (fr) m
• German: Köter (de) m, Straßenköter (de) m, Töle (de) f
• Hungarian: kutya (hu)
• Italian: cagnaccio (it) m
• Japanese: (as slang)わんこ (ja) (wanko), (officially)犬 (ja) (inu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bikkje (no) m or f

• Portuguese: totó (pt) m
• Romanian: javră (ro) f, potaie (ro) f
• Spanish: pichicho m
• Swedish: jycke (sv) c
• Turkish: it (tr), köpek (tr)
• Volapük: dog (vo)

mongrel

• Bulgarian: помияр (bg) m (pomijar)
• Dutch: bastaard (nl) m
• Finnish: rakki (fi)
• French: bâtard (fr) m
• German: Köter (de) m, Straßenköter (de) m, Promenadenmischung (de) f, Mischlingshund (de) m
• Hungarian: korcs (hu)
• Italian: bastardo (it) m
• Japanese: 雑種犬 (zasshuken)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøter (no) m, gatemiks m, blandingshund m

• Polish: kundel (pl) m
• Romanian: corcitură (ro) f
• Russian: дворняжка (ru) f (dvornjažka)

Etymology 2

Probably related to pouch.

Noun

pooch (countable and uncountable, plural pooches)

1. (countable) A bulge, an enlarged part.

   There's a pooch in the plastic where it got too hot.

2. A distended or swelled condition.

   Her left sleeve has more pooch at the shoulder than the right.

Translations

bulge

• Finnish: pullistuma (fi)
• Romanian: umflătură (ro) f

distended or swelled condition

• Finnish: pullistuma (fi)
• Romanian: umflare (ro) f, umflătură (ro) f

Verb

pooch (third-person singular simple present pooches, present participle pooching, simple past and past participle pooched)

1. To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out.

   Inflate that tire too much and the tube may pooch out of the cut in the sidewall.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 21, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎^[1], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 124:

     There were rustling sounds from the tent and the sides pooched out as if they were trying to stand up.

Translations

to extend beyond normal limits

• Dutch: puilen (nl), uitpuilen (nl)
• Finnish: pullistua (fi)
• Romanian: umfla (ro)

Anagrams

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