pouch

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /paʊt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -aʊtʃ === Noun === pouch (plural pouches) A small bag usually closed with a drawstring. (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young. Synonym: 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. (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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== bag pocket sack === Verb === pouch (third-person singular simple present pouches, present participle pouching, simple past and past participle pouched) (transitive) To enclose within a pouch. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. (of fowls and fish) To swallow. (obsolete, rare) To pout. (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with. ==== Translations ==== === References === “pouch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.