EVER CHARY

I said that my friend's lips were "pooching out" and my 
ever-chary friend exclaimed, "WHAT--pooching? Now, THAT can't be a real word!"

I answered, "My mother always used it; all of us use it." I said, "I'll have to check my experts Neil, Duke and Les."  I thought that maybe "pooching" was one of my mother's made-up words like "briggety"!

All of the brothers agreed that my usage of "pooching" was correct.

But since my friend is so smart, I decided I'd better check the OED!  Guess what? POOCHING is a perfectly good Anglo-Saxon word and it's not even slang. (NOTE: while writing this, Spell Check denies it, but dammit, I KNOW it's a word!)

POOCHING: present participle of "pooch":
to bulge, protrude or cause to protrude. Used with "out".
Example: "his lower lip pooched out in disappointment."

Les just yelled at me: "Hey, do you know what a pooch punt is in football?" (No, of course, I DON'T!)

POOCH PUNT: "A kick used by punters when the team is too far out for a field goal and too close to kick a normal punt."

I have written previously that my friend referenced above is the one who asks me what I have learned "new"  every day.  Yes, dear friend, I do learn something new every day and yes, I used "EVER-CHARY" to describe YOU!