pouch

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

Noun

1. a small bag

2. a baglike pocket in various animals, such as the cheek fold in hamsters

Verb

1. to place in or as if in a pouch

2. to make or be made into a pouch [Old French poche bag]

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)

Translations

pouch [pautʃ] n (ZOOL) → bolsa;

(for tobacco) → petaca

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pouch [pautʃ] n (Zool) → poche f;

(for tobacco) → blague f;

(for money) → bourse f

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pouch [pautʃ] n → Beutel m (also Zool)

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pouch [pautʃ] n → borsa;

(ZOOL) → marsupio