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pouch  (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 in packaging frozen or dehydrated food.

5. Something resembling a bag in shape: one's 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 purse for small 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.

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[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

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pouchy adj.

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pouch [paʊtʃ]

n

1. a small flexible baglike container a tobacco pouch

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part

4. another word for mailbag

5. (Clothing & Fashion) a Scot word for pocket

vb

1. (tr) to place in or as if in a pouch

2. to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (tr) (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow

[from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see poke²]

pouchy  adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pouch - a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things bag - a flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag" mail pouch, mailbag - pouch used in the shipment of mail pocket - a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles sporran - a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders tobacco pouch - a pouch for carrying pipe tobacco belt bag, waist pack - a small pouch (usually with a zipper) that attaches to a belt and is worn around the waist
	2.	pouch - an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" sac, sack, pocket enclosed space, cavity - space that is surrounded by something
	3.	pouch - (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) pocket gastric mill, gizzard, ventriculus - thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food utricle, utriculus - a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open atrial auricle, auricle, auricula atrii - a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart auricular appendage, auricular appendix, auricula - a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart sac - a structure resembling a bag in an animal cheek pouch - a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher) marsupium - an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled scrotum - the external pouch that contains the testes anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
Verb	1.	pouch - put into a small bag bag - put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"
	2.	pouch - send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels mail, get off - send via the postal service; "I'll mail you the check tomorrow"
	3.	pouch - swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" bulge, protrude change form, change shape, deform - assume a different shape or form bulk - stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack"

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pouch

noun bag, pocket, sack, container, purse, poke (dialect) a leather pouch full of tobacco

Translations

pouch [paʊtʃ] N (for tobacco) → petaca f; (for ammunition) → cartuchera f; (hunter's) → morral m (Zool, Anat) → bolsa f

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pouch [ˈpaʊtʃ] n

(ZOOLOGY) [animal] → poche f

(= small bag) → pochette f

(for tobacco) → blague f tobacco pouch

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pouch

n → Beutel m; (under eyes) → (Tränen)sack m; (of pelican, hamster) → Tasche f; (Mil) → (Patronen)tasche f; (Hist: for gunpowder) → (Pulver)beutel m; (esp US: = mail pouch) → Postsack m

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pouch [paʊtʃ] n (Anat) (for tobacco) → borsa; (for money) → borsellino (Zool) → marsupio

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pouch

n pouch [pautʃ]

1 a small bag a tobacco-pouch. sakkie كيس торбичка váček pung; -pung der Beutel σακούλι bolsa pequeña, (tabaco) petaca, (caza) morral, zurrón (väike) kott کیسه کوچک pussukka sac(oche), blague נַרתִיק थैली, जेब vrećica zacskó kantung kecil taska, poki borsa 小袋 작은 주머니 kapš(iuk)as maisiņš dompet zakje pung, pose woreczek bolsa săculeţ мешочек, сумка;кисет vrecúško mošnja vrećica pung, påse ถุงเล็ก ๆ kese 小袋 торбинка; кисет چھوٹي تھيلي túi nhỏ 小袋

2 something bag-like This animal stores its food in two pouches under its chin. sakkie مِحْفَظَه торбичка vak pung der Beutel σάκος bolsa tasku هر چیز کیسه مانند pussi poche נַרתִיק जेब या थैली में रखना kesica zacskó kantung poki sacca 袋状のもの 주머니 같이 생긴 것 pagurklis maiss; pazode kantung zak pung, pose torba bolsa buzu­năraş что-л., похожее на мешочек vak vrečka torba påse ที่เหมือนถุง ağız kesesi; göz altı torbacığı 袋狀物 щось схоже на мішечок تھيلي جيسي چيز túi 袋状物

3 the pocket of skin in which the young of certain kinds of animal, eg the kangaroo, are reared. buidel جِراب торба vak pung der Beutel μάρσιπος bolsa kukkur کیسه برخی حیوانات که بچه خود را در آن پرورش می دهند pussi poche כִּיס जेब tobolac erszény kantung poki marsupio 腹袋 캥거루의 육아 주머니 sterblė soma kantung buidel pung torba bolsa marsupiu сумка vak vreča torba pung ถุงหน้าท้องสัตว์ kese, cep (動物的)育兒袋 сумка کھال جس ميں کنگارو وغيرہ کے بچے پرورز پاتے ہيں túi của một số động vật （动物的）育儿袋