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Definition: Pooch |
PoochNoun1. Informal terms for dogs. Verb1. Round one's lips as if intending to kiss. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PoochSynonyms: barker (n), bow-wow (n), doggie (n), doggy (n), pooch out (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pooch |
| English words defined with "pooch": Pshaw. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Four? That seems like an aweful lot of speed to give one little pooch. Are you sure it won't kill him (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) Then you'll just have to distract her while I nab the pooch and make with the gore (Ginger Snaps; writing credit: Karen Walton; John Fawcett) Shyeah! It'd totally screw the pooch, babe (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Lyrics | If you pooch a civilian, (In France; performing artist: Frank Zappa) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Moochin' Pooch (1971) Punch Pooch (1962) Private Eye Pooch (1955) Officer Pooch (1941) Porky's Pooch (1941) | |
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 | Blue Island, Illinois. "Pooch" getting his dinner from Bobby Senise. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pete the pooch. A smiling dog heads toward the entrance of the local USO. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pooch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pooch" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pooch": pooch out. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pooch | 63 | patty pooch | 4 |
pooch cafe | 23 | pooch pack | 4 |
pampered pooch | 16 | pooch pouch | 3 |
man pooch thin | 15 | parlor pooch | 3 |
planet pooch | 10 | passion pooch | 3 |
palace pooch | 7 | bailey beetle pooch | 3 |
pooch pad | 7 | pooch project | 3 |
pooch screw | 6 | n pooch purr | 3 |
pooch screwed | 5 | la pooch | 2 |
pooch temper tv | 4 | cool pooch | 2 |
pooch sarges | 4 | petite pooch | 2 |
oz pooch | 4 | heaven pooch | 2 |
pooch tummy | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pooch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | كلب (canine, dog, hound, madness, tike), خسيس (abject, base, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, ignoble, loon, lousy, low, lowly, mean, paltry, reptile, ruffian, scruffy, servile, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, small change, sordid, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | куче (cur, dog, hound, tike). (various references) | |
French | cabot. (various references) | |
German | Köter (cur, curs, damn dog, mongrel, monster, tyke, tykes). (various references) | |
Greek | σκύλοσ (dog, tike). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kuvasz (kvass, tike, tyke). (various references) | |
Italian | cane (brute, cramp, dog, hammer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oochpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vira-lata (cur). (various references) | |
Russian | собака (dog, hound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pseto. (various references) | |
Spanish | perro (dog). (various references) | |
Swedish | jucke. (various references) | |
Turkish | köpek (bow wow, canine, dog, doggy), it (cur, dog, mutt). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дворняжка (cur, mongrel, mutt, pi-dock, tyke). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pooch": pooched, pooches, pooching. (additional references) | |
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"Pooch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Booch, kooch, nooch, Oocch, Oochi, Oohh, Oohhh, ooohh, ooosh, Opco, oroch, Paich, Paoh, peuch, Phoca, Pioche, plokho, plook, ploosh, poc, Poch, poche, pocho, poco, Poech, poik, pok, Poloc, ponch, pooc, pooca, poohs, pook, Pooka, pooki, poonch, pooosh, Posch, Potok, pouchy, pou-hd, poutch, proch, Prokosch, puch, puoh, Puok, pwooooh, upoch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pooch" (pronounced puw"kh) |
| 2 | -uw" kh | Hooch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-o-o-p" | |
-1 letter: chop, coho, coop, hoop, poco, pooh. | |
-2 letters: coo, cop, hop, oho, ooh, poh. | |
-3 letters: ho, oh, op. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-o-o-p" | |
+1 letter: poncho. | |
+2 letters: hencoop, ponchos, pooched, pooches. | |
+3 letters: chapbook, chenopod, chilopod, colophon, cookshop, copyhold, hencoops, hockshop, hotchpot, oophytic, photonic, photopic, poechore, pooching, topnotch. | |
+4 letters: acrophobe, cacophony, chapbooks, chenopods, chilopods, chiropody, chophouse, choplogic, colophons, colophony, cookshops, copyholds, crapshoot, dropcloth, ectomorph, hockshops, hodoscope, holotypic, hopscotch, horoscope, hotchpots, hypocotyl, hypotonic, lyophobic, octothorp, orthoepic, phenocopy, photocell, photocopy, photonics, phycology, poechores, preschool, sociopath, toothpick, zoophilic. | |
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