different between nouch vs pouch

English

Etymology

See ouche.

Noun

nouch (plural nouches)

1. (obsolete) An ouche; a jewel.

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English

Etymology

From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Compare pocket, poke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?t??/
• Rhymes: -a?t?

Noun

pouch (plural pouches)

1. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
2. (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.

   Synonym: marsupium

3. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
4. (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
5. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
   • 1747, Samuel Sharp, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery

     […] form a large Pouch or Cyst

6. (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
7. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

Derived terms

• posing pouch

Translations

See also

• bag
• pocket
• sack

Verb

pouch (third-person singular simple present pouches, present participle pouching, simple past and past participle pouched)

1. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.

2. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

3. (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
4. (obsolete) To pout.

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5. (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

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