pooch

English

Etymology

Of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːtʃ

Noun

pooch (plural pooches)

1. (slang) A dog
2. A dog of mixed breed, a mongrel
3. A bulge, an enlarged part

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

4. A distended or swelled condition.

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

Translations

slang: dog

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狗 (cmn) (gou3)

• Danish: hund (da) c
• Dutch: vuilnisbakkie (nl) n
• Finnish: piski (fi), murre (fi)
• French: clébard (fr) m
• German: Köter (de) m, Straßenköter (de) m

• Hungarian: kutya (hu)
• Italian: cane (it) m
• Japanese: (as slang)わんこ (ja) (wanko), (offically)犬 (ja) (inu)
• Portuguese: totó (pt) m
• Spanish: pichicho m
• Swedish: jycke (sv) c
• Volapük: dog (vo)

mongrel

• Dutch: bastaard (nl) m
• Finnish: rakki (fi)
• French: bâtard (fr) m
• German: Köter (de) m, Straßenköter (de) m, Promenadenmischung (de) f, Mischlingshund (de) m

• Italian: bastardo (it) m
• Japanese: 雑種犬 (zasshuken)
• Polish: kundel (pl) m
• Russian: дворняжка (ru) (dvornyazhka) f 

bulge

• Finnish: pullistuma (fi)

distended or swelled condition

• Finnish: pullistuma (fi)

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.

Translations

to extend beyond normal limits

• Dutch: puilen (nl), uitpuilen (nl)

• Finnish: pullistua (fi)

Derived terms

• poocher