pouch

Meaning

Noun

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. (dated, derogatory, slang) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
2. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
3. To swallow.
4. (obsolete, rare) To pout.
5. (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

Synonyms

bag

pocket

sack

purse

👛

sac

handbag

👜

wallet

cartridge belt

satchel

bandolier

protrude

bandoleer

ammunition belt

marsupium

small bag

saccule

briefcase

💼

cartridge-belt

capsule

bulge

hanger-on

honeycomb

hydatid

intrude

kit

knapsack

moneybag

💰

obtrude

penetrate

pocketbook

poke

postbag

pot

push

push forward

push up

receptacle

sackful

scrip

shoulder bag

socket

squeeze

thrust

tip

tool bag

wedge

fish trap

imburse

sacculus

depression

Translations

bolsa

Beutel

bolsa

👛

poche

sacchetto

malote

bourse

marsupio

blague à tabac

borsa

zak

torba

σακούλα

Tasche

Pronounced as (IPA)

/paʊt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pouche

Cognate with French: poche

Cognate with Anglo-Norman: -

Cognate with Middle Dutch: poke

Cognate with Old English: pohha

Cognate with German: Pfoch

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.

Sentences

He knelt down to find Urim and Thummim and put them back in the pouch .