different between poochie vs pooch

English

Etymology

pooch +? -ie

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?t?i

Noun

poochie (plural poochies)

1. (informal, hypocoristic) A dog; a pooch.
   • 2007, Patt Mihailoff, Baby Papers (page 66)

     “That's not a good name for a poochie as cute as you,” she said snuggling the dog to her. “It is when you get to know him,” Julian said eyeing the traitorous hound.

   • 2009, Megan McMorris, Woman's Best Friend (page 147)

     A doggie diner, a poochie playdate, a puppy kindergarten. No matter, you will not be embarrassed. Surely people have always loved their dogs this much, that is what I tell myself, and you will too.

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.

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• pocho