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pouch.

A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/paʊt͡ʃ/

  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.

    dated · derogatory · slang

  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.

Where this word comes from

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.

verb/paʊt͡ʃ/

  1. To enclose within a pouch.

    transitive
    The beggar pouched the coin.

  2. To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

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

  3. To swallow.

  4. To pout.

    obsolete · rare

  5. To pocket; to put up with.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

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