Definition of Pouch

1. Noun. A small or medium size container for holding or carrying things.

Generic synonyms: Bag
Specialized synonyms: Mail Pouch, Mailbag, Pocket, Sporran, Tobacco Pouch, Belt Bag, Waist Pack

2. Verb. Put into a small bag.
Generic synonyms: Bag

3. Noun. An enclosed space. "The trapped miners found a pocket of air"
Exact synonyms: Pocket, Sac, Sack
Generic synonyms: Cavity, Enclosed Space

4. Verb. Send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels.
Generic synonyms: Get Off, Mail

5. Noun. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican).

6. Verb. Swell or protrude outwards. "His stomach bulged after the huge meal"
Exact synonyms: Bulge, Protrude
Generic synonyms: Change Form, Change Shape, Deform
Specialized synonyms: Bulk
Derivative terms: Bulge, Protrusible, Protrusion, Protrusive

Definition of Pouch

1. n. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

2. v. t. To put or take into a pouch.

Definition of Pouch

1. Noun. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring ¹

2. Noun. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young ¹

3. Noun. Any pocket or bag shaped object; as, a cheek pouch ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pouch

1. to put in a pouch (a small, flexible receptacle) [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pouch

potty
potty-mouthed
potty-trained
potty-training
potty chair
potty humor
potty mouth
potty mouths
potty seat
pottymouth
pottymouthed
potulent
potzer
potzers
poubaite
pouch (current term)
pouch-shaped
pouched
pouched egg
pouched eggs
pouched mammal
pouched mole
pouched mouse
pouched rat
pouches
pouchful
pouchfuls
pouchier
pouchiest
pouching

Literary usage of Pouch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"The pouch is situated in the autero-lateral wall of the (esophagus on the left side, the upper end of the pouch being placed ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"The pouch was typical in its situation, and in the symptoms which it occasioned. ... The pouch was easily found, and as it was cut away the opening into the ..."

3. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1856)
"Md'Aboville then determined to seize and examine her: the pouch, the aperture of which had ... On the fifteenth day, a finger was introduced into the pouch, ..."

4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The blacks inform me that the Echidna lays a white egg, and the Platypus a black one, which are hatched in the abdominal pouch. ..."

5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1893)
"(l) over-distension of the pouch with atmospheric air admitted through the Eustachian tube, and (2) over-distension with gas evolved in the pouch under the ..."

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