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. See mailbag
   another word for mailbag
5. See pocket
   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

Derived Forms

• ˈpouchy, 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

The carrying case might be a little too big for your running shorts, but they’ll fit in a jacket pocket or bike pouch easily.

From Time

Once you’ve narrowed it down, you can choose organic, pouch, canned, or a subscription service for the freshest meals.

From Popular-Science

If you don’t have one of these machines, you can still portion these items and seal them in airtight, reusable containers or pouches.

From Outside Online

The mask has all of the aspects of luxury—from the fabric to the little antimicrobial carrying pouch you can easily pop it into when you’re not wearing it.

From The Daily Beast

At the heart of the new modular architecture will be the large-format pouch battery cells manufactured at this new factory.

From TechCrunch

Stuffed into the pouch on the back of the seat in front of me is the local newspaper.

From The Daily Beast

The other daughter had been saved from harm when a notebook with a pouch of pens stopped a bullet.

From The Daily Beast

The OFF Pocket, a sleek pouch that deflects phone tracking—and phone calls.

From The Daily Beast

In that same picture, in a pouch in the back of the front seat, there is a magazine: a copy of Newsweek.

From The Daily Beast

A $3 pouch of Bugler ends up retailing inside for about $600—a 20,000% markup.

From The Daily Beast

The tobacco-box, during the reign of Elizabeth, was no unimportant part of a dandy's outfit; sometimes a pouch or bag was used.

From Project Gutenberg

His tobacco pouch, which he laid upon the table, was a fantastic embroidered silk affair, evidently the handiwork of a woman.

From Project Gutenberg

"You used to carry your tobacco in a rubber pouch," said Edna, picking up the pouch and examining the needlework.

From Project Gutenberg

He thrust the pouch back in his pocket, as if to put away the subject with the trifle which had brought it up.

From Project Gutenberg

I meant to pouch my winnings and go straight to my wife and say, 'Peccavi,' and I should hear her say to me, 'Go and sin no more.'

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bag
• pocket
• purse