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Mooch vs Pooch - What's the difference?

mooch | pooch |

As verbs the difference between mooch and pooch

is that mooch is to wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others while pooch is to distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with {{term|out|lang=en}}.

As nouns the difference between mooch and pooch

is that mooch is one who mooches; a moocher while pooch is a dog.

mooch

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(es)
  • (British) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
  • To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
  • * 1990 , p. 26, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides , Center for Marine Conservation, Washington (DC), ISBN 1879269-007, p. 26,
    • I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of “Interviewer”.
  • (British) To steal or filch.
  • * 1922 , , The Middle of Things , ch. 16,
    • These chaps that mooch about, as Hyde was doing, pick up all sorts of odds and ends. He may have pinched them from a chemist’s shop.

    Derived terms

    * mooch off

    Noun

    (es)
  • One who mooches; a moocher.

    • pooch

    English

    Noun

    (pooches)
  • (slang) A dog
  • A dog of mixed breed, a mongrel
  • A bulge, an enlarged part
    • "There's a pooch in the plastic where it got too hot."
  • A distended or swelled condition.
    • "Her left sleeve has more pooch at the shoulder than the right."

    Verb

    (es)
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * poocher