pouch
Betekenis (English)
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- A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
- (slang) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
- A cyst or sac containing fluid.
- A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
Synonyms
cartridge belt
ammunition belt
small bag
cartridge-belt
tool bag
imburse
sacculus
seed-vessel
cartridge/ammunition belt
thrust ahead
of kangaroo
hangbag
game-bag
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/paʊt͡ʃ/
Etimologie (English)
In summary
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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