pouch

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A pouch full of coins.

noun

The definition of a pouch is a small bag used for carrying things.

An example of a pouch is a small bag with a drawstring used for carrying coins.

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pouch

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

Origin of pouch

Middle English pouche from Middle French poche, variant, variety of poque: see poke

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

to form a pouch or pouchlike cavity

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pouch

noun

A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
A sealed plastic or foil container used for packaging food or drink.
Something resembling a bag in shape: the pouches under one's eyes.
Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.
Scots A pocket.
Archaic A small purse for coins.

verb

pouched, pouch·ing, pouch·es

verb

transitive

To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
To cause to resemble a pouch.
To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.

verb

intransitive

To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.

Origin of pouch

Middle English from Old French of Germanic origin

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pouch′y
adjective

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Noun

(plural pouches)

A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
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.
(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.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present pouches, present participle pouching, simple past and past participle pouched)

To enclose within a pouch.
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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Origin

From Old Northern French pouche, borrowed from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Old Low Franconian *poka (“pouch") (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pocca, dialectal German Pfoch) or Frankish. Compare pocket, poke.

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pouch - Medical Definition

n.

Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.

v.

To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.

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