[Techtalk] Etymology: Pooched

[Ms. Piglet]

Maybe that one's a regional dialect thing....I've always heard it, primarily
from my mother's family, as in "Stand up straight, when you slouch it makes
your belly pooch out."

She was from the Ozarks.....

--pig



On 3/22/02 4:14 PM,  <pippin at freeshell.org> shared this thought:

> m-w.com has this to say...
> 
> Main Entry: pooch
> Etymology: alteration of pouch
> Date: circa 1923
> chiefly dialect : BULGE
> 
> and bartleby.com says
> 
>> INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: pooched, pooch·ing, pooch·es
>> To bulge; protrude. Used with out: “a little roll of flab that pooches out
>> above the tight waists of their spandex trunks” (Megan Rosenfeld,
>> Washington Post March 25, 1992). ETYMOLOGY:Alteration of pouch.
> 
> Maybe it's crude/slang for "fat" or something...?
> I've never heard it used.
> 
> Walt
> 
> -~
> 

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