pouchy


pouch

P0485800 (pouch)n.1. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.2. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.3. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.4. A sealed plastic or foil container used for packaging food or drink.5. Something resembling a bag in shape: the pouches under one's eyes.6. Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.7. Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.8. Scots A pocket.9. Archaic A small purse for coins.v. pouched, pouch·ing, pouch·es v.tr.1. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.2. To cause to resemble a pouch.3. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.v.intr. To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.
[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]
pouch′y adj.

pouch•y

(ˈpaʊ tʃi)

adj. pouch•i•er, pouch•i•est. possessing or resembling a pouch. [1820–30]