English Explanatory Dictionary

pouch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Pronunciation

/paʊt͡ʃ/ en-us-pouch.ogg

Word forms

pouch pouches pouching pouched

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

marsupium

Related words

bag pocket sack

Derived words

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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