[Techtalk] Etymology: Pooched

[Walt]

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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