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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pouch /paʊtʃ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a bag, sack, or small container, esp. one for small articles or quantities:a tobacco pouch.
- a bag for carrying mail:a letter carrier's pouch.
- something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket:pouches under his eyes.
- Zoologya baglike structure in or on the body of certain animals, as kangaroos, for carrying the young.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pouch (pouch),USA pronunciation n. - a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, esp. one for small articles or quantities:a tobacco pouch.
- a small moneybag.
- a bag for carrying mail.
- a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
- something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.
- Scottish Terms[Chiefly Scot.]a pocket in a garment.
- Pathologya baggy fold of flesh under the eye.
- Anatomy, Zoologya 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. - Botanya baglike cavity.
v.t. - to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket;
pocket. - to arrange in the form of a pouch.
- Animal Behavior(of a fish or bird) to swallow.
v.i. - to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.
- Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke2
- Middle English pouche 1350–1400
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: pouch /paʊtʃ/ n - a small flexible baglike container: a tobacco pouch
- a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents
- any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part
- another word for mailbag
- a Scot word for pocket
vb - (transitive) to place in or as if in a pouch
- to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form
- (transitive) (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see poke²ˈpouchy adj |