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pouch

[pouch]

noun

  1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities.

    a tobacco pouch.

  2. a small moneybag.

  3. a bag for carrying mail.

  4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.

  5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.

  6. Chiefly Scot.a pocket in a garment.

  7. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.

  8. Anatomy, Zoology.a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.

  9. Botany.a baglike cavity.



verb (used with object)

  1. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.

  2. to arrange in the form of a pouch.

  3. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.

verb (used without object)

  1. to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.

pouch

/ 貹ʊʃ /

noun

  1. a small flexible baglike container

    a tobacco pouch

  2. a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents

  3. anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part

  4. another word for mailbag

  5. a Scot word for pocket

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to place in or as if in a pouch

  2. to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form

  3. (tr) (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ˈdzܳ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pouch1

1350–1400; Middle English pouche < Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke 2
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pouch1

C14: from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see poke ²
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Some leading baby food pouches carry labels such as "perfectly balanced for growing babies" or "packed with goodness".

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His team recently published an article on nicotine pouches in the British Dental Journal that was downloaded more than 250,000 times.

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The documents were sent by the German embassy in Tokyo and arrived in Argentina on 20 June 1941 inside 83 diplomatic pouches aboard a Japanese steamship, according to information gathered by court officials.

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As he spoke, Fender pulled a canister of nicotine pouches from his pocket — a habit, he pointed out, that’s proved tougher to kick than cigarettes.

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Upon arrival, guests are instructed to put their phones into a secure pouch.

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