[Techtalk] Etymology: Pooched
Ms. Piglet
listpig at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 22 17:37:25 EST 2002
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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Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz
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