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Pouch

//paʊt͡ʃ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  2. 2
    a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things wordnet
  3. 3
    An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  4. 4
    (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) wordnet
  5. 5
    Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
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  1. 6
    an enclosed space wordnet
  2. 7
    A protuberant belly; a paunch. dated, derogatory, slang
  3. 8
    A cyst or sac containing fluid.

    "[…]form a large Pouch or Cyst"

  4. 9
    A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  5. 10
    A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
Verb
  1. 1
    To enclose within a pouch. transitive

    "The beggar pouched the coin."

  2. 2
    swell or protrude outwards wordnet
  3. 3
    To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. transitive

    "We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing."

  4. 4
    send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels wordnet
  5. 5
    To swallow.

    "And, to name no more, the common Heron hath its most remarkable Parts adapted to this Service; long Legs for wading; and a long Neck answerable thereto to reach Prey; a wide, extensive Throat to pouch it; long Toes, with strong hooked Talons […]"

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  1. 6
    put into a small bag wordnet
  2. 7
    To pout. obsolete, rare

    "He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up and swelled; but answered me not."

  3. 8
    To pocket; to put up with. obsolete

    "And for the value of the gowden piece , it shall never be said I pouched her siller"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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