pouch

[ pouch ]

noun

1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities:

   a tobacco pouch.

2. a small moneybag.
3. a bag for carrying mail.
4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.
6. Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment.
7. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.
8. Anatomy, Zoology. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.
9. Botany. a baglike cavity.

verb (used with object)

1. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
2. to arrange in the form of a pouch.
3. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.

pouch

/ paʊtʃ /

noun

1. a small flexible baglike container

   a tobacco pouch

2. a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents
3. anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part
4. another word for mailbag
5. a Scot word for pocket

verb

1. tr to place in or as if in a pouch
2. to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form
3. tr (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow

Derived Forms

• ˈpouchy, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pouch¹

1350–1400; Middle English pouche < Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of pouch¹

C14: from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see poke ²

Example Sentences

For the magnetic pouches, the best-known company that makes them is Yondr.

From Los Angeles Times

The shoulder pouch from Westbound Gear solves all of those problems.

From Los Angeles Times

Whereas many jarred foods contain a single ingredient like pureed peas or carrots, pouches are more often a blend that features a sweet fruit such as apple or pear as the primary ingredient.

From Los Angeles Times

Examples include canned chicken with instant noodles, canned black beans and corn with a pouch of rice, or peanut butter on shelf-stable bread with dried fruit.

From Salon

"They took everything out of my pockets, they went through my wallet including the coin pouch, they searched my shoes," he says.

From BBC

Related Words

• bag
• pocket
• purse