Pooch vs Lop - What's the difference?
pooch | lop |
(slang) A dog
A dog of mixed breed, a mongrel
A bulge, an enlarged part
A distended or swelled condition.
To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out.
(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.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
To allow to hang down.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
(US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
* 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
wolf
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As nouns the difference between pooch and lop
is that pooch is a dog while lop is a flea.As verbs the difference between pooch and lop
is that pooch is to distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with {{term|out|lang=en}} while lop is 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.pooch
English
Noun
(pooches)- "There's a pooch in the plastic where it got too hot."
- "Her left sleeve has more pooch at the shoulder than the right."
Verb
(es)- Inflate that tire too much and the tube may pooch out of the cut in the sidewall.
Derived terms
* poocherlop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .References
* * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) loppe.Verb
(lopp)- to lop the head
Synonyms
* (to cut off)Derived terms
* lopper, loppersSee also
* defalcateNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- (Mortimer)
References
*Etymology 3
from lopsided.Noun
(en noun)- "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."