pouch
Etymology

From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from fro-nor pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman - variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *pokō (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch).

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /paʊt͡ʃ/
Noun

pouch (plural pouches)

  1. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  2. (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
    Synonyms: marsupium
  3. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  4. (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  5. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
    • 1747, Samuel Sharp, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery:
      […] form a large Pouch or Cyst
  6. (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  7. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
Translations Translations Verb

pouch (pouches, present participle pouching; simple past and past participle pouched)

  1. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
    The beggar pouched the coin.
  2. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
    We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.
  3. (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
  4. (obsolete, rare) To pout.
  5. (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.
    • 1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC ↗:
      And for the value of the gowden piece , it shall never be said I pouched her siller



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