pouch
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French puche Old Northern French pouchebor. Middle English pouche English pouch From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.
Definitions
A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
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A protuberant belly
A protuberant belly; a paunch.
A cyst or sac containing fluid.
- […]form a large Pouch or Cyst
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.
To enclose within a pouch.
- The beggar pouched the coin.
To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
- We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.
To swallow.
To pout.
- He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up and swelled; but answered me not.
To pocket
To pocket; to put up with.
- And for the value of the gowden piece , it shall never be said I pouched her siller
The neighborhood
Derived
abdominal pouch, brood pouch, Faraday pouch, laryngeal pouch, manpouch, Morison's pouch, nicotine pouch, Pavlov pouch, pencil pouch, pillow pouch, posing pouch, Poucher, pouchful, pouchitis, pouchless, pouchlike, pouchling, pouchmaker, pouchmaking, pouch of Morison, pouchy, pseudopouch, Rathke's pouch, retortable pouch, retort pouch, shepherd's pouch
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA