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.

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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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How to use pouch in a sentence

The handmade zippered pouch belonged to an 80-year-old woman, he learned, who lives about six miles away, in Mill Valley, Calif.
A homeless man found a wallet. After he returned it, a 12-year-old raised hundreds of dollars for him.|Sydney Page|January 6, 2021|Washington Post
Apple already makes some first-party accessories including cases, a pouch for the iPhone 12 Mini, and a wallet attachment that holds several credit cards to the back of your device.
Moment’s MagSafe accessories let you stick your iPhone wherever you want|Stan Horaczek|November 3, 2020|Popular-Science
Its 34-liter capacity lets you haul everything you need for a weekend, with organizational features like a removable shoe bag and add-ons including a laptop sleeve and tech pouch.
Our Favorite Gear for Any Type of Traveler|Janna Irons|September 8, 2020|Outside Online
After breeding, the females return to the sea for food and the males stay behind, each incubating a solitary egg in a pouch above their feet.
Math of the Penguins|Susan D'Agostino|August 17, 2020|Quanta Magazine

They use their heads to help haul themselves to their mother’s pouch for the first time.
Pandas use their heads as a kind of extra limb for climbing|Susan Milius|March 13, 2020|Science News For Students
When the turkey was relieved from his pouching and sent to bed, Pierre Grignon took his violin.
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
There is noticeable distension of the joint capsule—a characteristic pendant pouching protrusion.
Lameness of the Horse|John Victor Lacroix
Innominate aneurysm may be of the fusiform or of the sacculated variety, and is frequently associated with pouching of the aorta.
Manual of Surgery|Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
I hit the cock and one o' the hens down wi' the barrel o' my gun, and just as I were pouching'em, up come the keeper.
Three Courses and a Dessert|Anonymous
The pouching clerk takes the packages of letters, reads the labels thereon, and throws them into the proper sack.
Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, July 1899|Various

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

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