pouch

[pouch]

noun

1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities.

   a tobacco pouch.

2. a small moneybag.

3. a bag for carrying mail.

4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.

5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.

6. Chiefly Scot.,  a pocket in a garment.

7. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.

8. Anatomy, Zoology.,  a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.

9. Botany.,  a baglike cavity.

verb (used with object)

1. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.

2. to arrange in the form of a pouch.

3. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.

pouch

/ paʊtʃ /

noun

1. a small flexible baglike container

   a tobacco pouch

2. a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents

3. anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part

4. another word for mailbag

5. a Scot word for pocket

verb

1. (tr) to place in or as if in a pouch

2. to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form

3. (tr) (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow

Other Word Forms

• pouchy adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pouch¹

1350–1400; Middle English pouche < Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of pouch¹

C14: from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see _poke ²

Example Sentences

Vaping and nicotine pouches have surged to make up nearly 70% of the company's UK revenue in the last five years.

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Half of the parents surveyed were found to prefer a stricter policy such as banning smartphones or keeping them locked in pouches.

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Both male and female koalas can contract the disease, which is a different strain to the one found in humans, while joeys can catch it through feeding in their mother's pouch.

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Ms Mills said pupils initially "hated" the idea of the pouches which stop them accessing their phone.

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It comes four months after a BBC Panorama investigation found top-brand baby food pouches lacked key nutrients and parents were often being misled by marketing.

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Related Words

• bag 
• pocket 
• purse