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

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

From Los Angeles Times

You simply attach the 7-inch water-resistant pouch — available in multiple colors — to your backpack’s strap, and suddenly you have an easily accessible pocket where you can keep your phone, satellite communicator or whatever else you’d like to have on hand.

From Los Angeles Times

Although this navy blue leather zip-up pouch isn’t technically merch, the quote printed on the lower-right corner in eye-catching pink conceptually qualifies it as an unbashed promo for the city of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times

Total monthly pouch budget: $200.

From Los Angeles Times

While the occasional pouch can be part of a healthy diet, doctors and nutritionists are raising concerns that an overreliance on pouches can interfere with nutrition, long-term food preferences, dental hygiene and even speech and language development.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• bag
• pocket
• purse