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pouch

Pronunciation: /paʊt͡ʃ/

The English word “pouch” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  2. An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  3. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  4. A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  5. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  6. A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  7. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

verb

  1. To enclose within a pouch.
  2. To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  3. To swallow.
  4. To pout.
  5. To pocket; to put up with.

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.

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