pouch Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
  2. noun an enclosed space
    sac; pocket; sack.
    • the trapped miners found a pocket of air
  3. noun (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
    pocket.
  4. verb put into a small bag
  5. verb send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
  6. verb swell or protrude outwards
    bulge; protrude.
    • His stomach bulged after the huge meal

WordNet

Pouch noun
Etymology
F. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a bag, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder.
Definitions
  1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
  2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: (a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule. (b) (Zoöl.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials. (c) (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid. S. Sharp. (d) (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse. (e) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
Pouch transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Pouched ; present participle & verbal noun Pouching
Definitions
  1. To put or take into a pouch.
  2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. Derham.
  3. To pout. Obs. Ainsworth.
  4. To pocket; to put up with. R. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913