noun

1. a small bag or sack for carrying something, as in one's pocket a leather tobacco pouch
2. ☆ a mailbag; specif., one whose opening can be locked, as for sending diplomatic dispatches
3. anything shaped like a pouch
4. Scot. a pocket (in clothing)
5. Archaic a purse
6. Anat. any pouchlike cavity or part
7. Zool.
   1. marsupium (sense )
   2. a baglike part, as of a pelican's bill or a gopher's cheeks, used to carry food

Etymology: ME pouche < MFr poche, var. of poque: see poke

transitive verb

1. to put in a pouch
2. to make into a pouch; make pouchy
3. to swallow: said of fish and certain birds

intransitive verb