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pouch
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)
- A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- Synonym: marsupium
- Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
- (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
- A cyst or sac containing fluid.
- 1747, Samuel Sharp, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery
- […] form a large Pouch or Cyst
- 1747, Samuel Sharp, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery
- (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
Derived terms
- posing pouch
Translations
See also
- bag
- sack
Verb
pouch (third-person singular simple present pouches, present participle pouching, simple past and past participle pouched)
- (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
- (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
- (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
- (obsolete) To pout.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.
Translations
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tearpit
English
Etymology
tear +? pit
Noun
tearpit (plural tearpits)
- (anatomy) A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus or larmier.
Anagrams
- -partite, partite, prattie
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