different between pooch vs lop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?t??/
• Rhymes: -u?t?

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. One (unsubstantiated) conjecture is that the word comes from Putzi, a common German name given to lapdogs. The name Putzi is possibly formed from German Putz + -i, influenced by German putzig (“funny, cute, small”, adjective).

Noun

pooch (plural pooches)

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

Translations

References

Etymology 2

Probably related to pouch.

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.

Translations

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.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 21, p. 124,^[1]

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

Translations

Anagrams

• pocho

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

Verb

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

1. (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
   • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I

     Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,

     In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,

     Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,

2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.

   to lop the head

Synonyms

• (to cut off): snead

Derived terms

• lopper, loppers

Translations

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

See also

• defalcate

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *lupp? (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijan? (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. (Tyneside) A flea.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cleveland to this entry?)

   Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Etymology 3

Back-formation from lopsided.

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
   • 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5

     "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."

2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

See also

• lob

Anagrams

• LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol

A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap

Verb

lop

1. to count

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.

Noun

lop m (plural lops)

1. wolf

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lop]
• Rhymes: -op

Verb

lop

1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-t?l)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Descendants

References

Further reading

• lop in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?p?]
• Hyphenation: lop

Noun

lop (plural lop-lop, first-person possessive lopku, second-person possessive lopmu, third-person possessive lopnya)

1. barrel (of a firearm)

   Synonym: laras

Further reading

• “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

lop

1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lup]

Noun

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf

Derived terms

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun

lop

1. end

Volapük

Noun

lop (nominative plural lops)

1. opera

Declension

Derived terms

• lopöp
• lopül