pooch

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Noun

pooch (plural pooches)

1. (slang) A dog.
2. A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel.

Translations

• French: clébard, cabot, sac à puces
• German: Köter, Straßenköter
• Italian: cagnaccio
• Portuguese: totó
• Spanish: pichicho

Translations

• French: bâtard
• German: Köter, Straßenköter, Promenadenmischung, Mischlingshund
• Italian: bastardo
• Russian: дворняжка

Noun

pooch (plural pooches)

1. 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.

Verb

pooch (pooches, present participle pooching; 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, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 21, p. 124,

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

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