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Pooch vs Pouch - What's the difference?

pooch | pouch |

As nouns the difference between pooch and pouch

is that pooch is a dog while pouch is a small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

As verbs the difference between pooch and pouch

is that pooch is to distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with {{term|out|lang=en}} while pouch is to enclose within a pouch.

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

    pouch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  • A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  • Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  • (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  • A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    See also

    * bag * pocket * sack

    Verb

  • To enclose within a pouch.
  • To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  • (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
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  • (obsolete) To pout.
    • (Ainsworth)
  • (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
    (Webster 1913)