pouch

[ pouch ]

/ paʊtʃ /

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noun

a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.

a small moneybag.

a bag for carrying mail.

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

something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.

Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment.

a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.

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.

Botany. a baglike cavity.

verb (used with object)

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

to arrange in the form of a pouch.

(of a fish or bird) to swallow.

verb (used without object)

to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.

Words nearby pouch

potus, potwalloper, potyomkin, potëmkin, pou sto, pouch, pouched, pouched rat, pouchy, poudrage, poudrette

Origin of pouch

1350–1400; Middle English pouche < Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke²

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Examples from the Web for pouch

Stuffed into the pouch on the back of the seat in front of me is the local newspaper.
Our Trip to The Climate War's Ground Zero|Darren Aronofsky|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The other daughter had been saved from harm when a notebook with a pouch of pens stopped a bullet.
The First Modern School Shooter Feels Responsible for the Rest|Michael Daly|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In that same picture, in a pouch in the back of the front seat, there is a magazine: a copy of Newsweek.
The Night Princess Diana Died|Christopher Dickey|August 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A $3 pouch of Bugler ends up retailing inside for about $600—a 20,000% markup.
With Cigarettes Banned In Most Prisons, Gangs Shift From Drugs To Smokes|Seth Ferranti|June 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Due to its shape, the pouch fills up so quickly that patients feel full after eating even the smallest portions of food.
Chris Christie’s Weight Loss: The Lap-Band Procedure Explained|Lizzie Crocker|May 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When the young has attained a certain size, the mother removes it from the pouch, but takes it in from time to time to suckle it.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia|Frank Evers Beddard
Colonel Nordsen removed tobacco from a pouch, stuffed his pipe, lit up.
Next Door, Next World|Robert Donald Locke
Conall, it's long since my knife is rusting in my pouch waiting for thy tender flesh.'
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He therefore was determined to kill two birds with one stone, and while North have some keys made to fit the company's pouch.
The Expressman and the Detective|Allan Pinkerton
Next he removed two pistols and a second pouch of the sort used for powder and shot.
The Black Buccaneer|Stephen W. Meader

British Dictionary definitions for pouch

pouch

/ (paʊtʃ) /

noun

a small flexible baglike containera tobacco pouch

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

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

another word for mailbag

a Scot word for pocket

verb

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

to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form

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

Derived forms of pouch

pouchy, adjective

Word Origin for pouch

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Medical definitions for pouch

pouch

[ pouch ]

n.

A pocketlike space in the body.

pouch

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verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

Words related to pouch

Words nearby pouch

Origin of pouch

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British Dictionary definitions for pouch

noun

verb

Derived forms of pouch

Word Origin for pouch

Medical definitions for pouch

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