pouch
Etymology
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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/
pouch (plural pouches)
- A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- Synonyms: marsupium
- Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
- (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
- A cyst or sac containing fluid.
- 1747, Samuel Sharp, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery:
- […] form a large Pouch or Cyst
- (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
- French: sachet, petit sac, (for tobacco) blague à tabac, (for ammunition) étui à munitions, (for cartridges) giberne, sac postal, bourse, poche, pochon, besace
- German: Beutel
- Italian: sacchetto
- Portuguese: bolsa, malote
- Russian: су́мка
- Spanish: bolsa, saquito
- French: poche, marsupium, mastothèque
- German: Beutel
- Portuguese: bolsa
- Russian: су́мка
- Spanish: marsupio, bolsa marsupial
pouch (pouches, present participle pouching; simple past and past participle pouched)
- (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
- The beggar pouched the coin.
- (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
- We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.
- (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
- (obsolete, rare) To pout.
- (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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