different between pooch vs porch

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.

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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.

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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

Etymology

From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??t?/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(?)?t?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

porch (plural porches)

1. (architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
2. A portico; a covered walk.
3. The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
   • 2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo

     By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

• back porch
• front porch
• porch monkey
• snow porch
• wet porch

Translations

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} verönd f

See also

• loggia
• porte-cochère