Meaning

5 senses
  1. (informal)A dog.

    She’s just been playing with the pooch ever since they got in the field.

    Köter, Straßenköter, Töle

  2. A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel.

    Köter, Straßenköter, Promenadenmischung

    дворняжкаdvornjažka

  3. (countable, informal)A bulge, an enlarged part.

    There's a pooch in the plastic where it got too hot.

  4. (countable, informal, uncountable)A distended or swelled condition.

    Her left sleeve has more pooch at the shoulder than the right.

  5. (broadly, countable, informal, uncountable)The lower belly region; often in reference to the stubborn fat stored in the abdominal area.

    See also: paunch

More definitions
  • informal terms for dogs

Examples

5 sentences
  1. He named his puppy Pooch.

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  2. Mary doesn't have a pooch; she has a kitten.

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  3. Tom and Mary are dog lovers, and have their pooch groomed once a month.

    deTom und Maria sind Hundeliebhaber und lassen ihrem Hündchen einmal im Monat das Fell pflegen.

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  4. Cookie is a playful pooch.

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  5. "Cookie's sixteen." "That's an old pooch."

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
mongrel:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
slang: dog:
mongrel:

Origin

Of uncertain origin. One (unsubstantiated) conjecture is that the word comes from Putzi, a

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).

Probably related to pouch.

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Forms

plural: pooches
Singularpooch
Pluralpooches

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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