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

Sun Jan 7 23:57:27 UTC 2007

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.

  The synonymy between "pooch" and "mutt" is of no significance here.

  JL
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The revised OED disappoints with no entry for "pooch." It's in DARE, from =20
1936 (Ramon Adams, as usual). Will "pooch" be in the HDAS? Anybody have cit=
es?
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The 1927 article below is interesting.
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
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_Cowboy Lingo - Page 145_=20
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=3DISBN0618083499&id=3DioHbdtjIKJgC&pg=3DR=
A1-PA145&lpg=3DRA1-PA145&ots=3DVKhWWYCgp5&dq=3Dpooch+and+cowboy+br
ead&ie=3DISO-8859-1&sig=3DwhaM9ihagN8h-VoSFHaH765LbTo)=20
by Ramon F. Adams - 2000 - 268 pages
=E2=80=9CPooch=E2=80=9D was the name of a dish made of canned tomatoes, sug=
ar, and bread.=20
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Fancy food, such as the cowboy heard of being served to people of the=20
cities, ...
Limited preview - _Table of Contents_=20
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=3DISBN0618083499&id=3DioHbdtjIKJgC&prints=
ec=3Dtoc&dq=3Dpooch+and+cowboy+bread&ie=3DISO-8859-
1&sig=3DnsJBhH_XPNCK6ok8zRbE9RUVEGg) - _About this book_=20
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=3DISBN0618083499&id=3DioHbdtjIKJgC&dq=3Dp=
ooch+and+cowboy+bread&ie=3DISO-8
859-1) =20
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_The Cowboy Encyclopedia - Page 142_=20
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=3DISBN0393314731&id=3D_08YPVPGE_MC&pg=3DP=
A142&lpg=3DPA142&ots=3D_6bnnLXUYM&dq=3Dpooch+and+cowboy
+bread&ie=3DISO-8859-1&sig=3DXmAtTviOrP9RDeyQi3buj3C9wd4)=20
by Richard W. Slatta - 1996
... could whip up a batch of=E2=80=9Dpooch=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94stewed tomatoes=
mixed with bread and=20
sugar. =20
... This was cowboy cuisine at its finest. Profit-minded ranchers and trail=
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_JSTOR: The Vocabulary of Social Life on the American Frontier_=20
(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=3D0043-373X(195004)9:2<136:TVOSLO>2.0.CO;2=
-R) Bread,=20
the most staple article of modern diets, was a rare commodity on the ...=20
Kansas City fish for salt pork, and pooch for tomatoes, sugar, and bread. =20=
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_Cowboy Grub, by Richard W. Slatta, proprietor of the Lazy S Ranch ..._=20
(http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/essays/grub.htm) Even the greenest=
cook=20
could whip up a batch of "pooch," stewed tomatoes mixed with bread and suga=
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Make Mine Beef: Cowboys everywhere liked fresh beef and ...
social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/essays/grub.htm - 12k =20
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24 September 1927, Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI), pg. 2, col. 3:
DIALOGUE OF COWBOYS
GREEK TO STRANGERS
San Angelo, Tex. -- (AP) -- A dictionary would be about as worthless as a =20
song in a hurricane to a New Yorker trying to find his way around the ranch=20=
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country of the west.
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Cowboyese, the dialect of the ranges, is as intricate and snappy as New =20
Yorkese and changes almost as rapidly. Some of the terms used in the pioneer=
days=20
have come down unchanged through the years, but other influences -- mainly =20
that of the cavalry in which most of the cowhands fought in the world war --=
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are apparent in the dialect.
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What would a native of New York's East Side do if confronted with a =20
conversation like this:
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"The top screw mounted his cutting horse, and, followed by a group of chuck=20=
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eaters, started to trail a bunch of cattle. The corral rope was on his saddl=
e,=20
next to the sougan, and as he placed a brain tablet in his mouth, his mount=
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began to swallow its head and soon turned the pack."
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A "top screw" is a ranch hand who has been on the ranch for years and knows=20=
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the business of that particular ranch from top to bottom. A "waddie" is=20
another name for the same individual.
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A "cutting horse" is the highest type of cow pony used for separating one =20
lot of animals from a large group.
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"Chuck eater" is the name applied to the young man from the east who comes=20
out to learn the game.
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"Trailing a bunch of cattle" means taking them on an extended trip from one=20=
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place to another.
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The "corral rope" was used to make an enclosure for the horses at night, =20
being spread about the bushes.
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The sougan is the blanket or comforter used by the puncher. He usually =20
carries three of them and a cotton pillow. It is also called a "velvet couch=
on a=20
hot roll."
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A "brain tablet" is a cigaret.
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A horse is said to have "swallowed its head" when it unexpectedly beings to=20=
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pitch.
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"Turn the pack" is the favorite expression for a horse throwing its rider.
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"Pooch" is the name for the dessert of the cowboy on the range. It contains=
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tomatoes, bread and sugar. When dished out to the "chuck eaters" it was wit=
h=20
the remark: "Your pay is raised."
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"Powders" are orders. "Go and get your powders from the boss" means "the =20
boss wants to see you."
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"Morale" is the feed bag out of which the horses eat.
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The "remuda" is the collection of horses used by a cow-camp. In Montana and=20=
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that section it is known as the "string."
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"Sunning his sides" means to pitch or buck. A pitching horse weaves from =20
side to side as well as up and down.
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"Curry him out" means to rake a horse up and down the sides with spurs. =20
"Galves" is the word for spurs.
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A "night horse" is that one that is tied up at night and used to rustle the=20=
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other mounts in the morning. The cook is the "cusinero."
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"Horse wranglers" have charge of the horses and rustle wood for the cook. =20
During the old drives it was not uncommon for a man to change mounts six tim=
es a=20
day. "Spool your bed" means to roll bedding."

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