"Pooch" (form "puchero"?) (1927)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Barry, the earliest I have on "pooch" is from a Mutt & Jeff strip:
>
>  1908 in A. C. Fisher _A. Mutt_ 108:  I'm beginning to think that pooch
> is a jinx to me.

I think Barry was asking about some obscure food sense of "pooch" rather
than the common "dog" sense.

Fred


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