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Pouched
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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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.
EXPANDsomething 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.
COLLAPSEBotany. a baglike cavity.
verb (used with object)
10.
to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
11.
to arrange in the form of a pouch.
12.
(of a fish or bird) to swallow.
verb (used without object)
13.
to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English pouche < Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke2
1350–1400; Middle English pouche < Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke2
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Word Origin & History
pouch
late 14c., "small bag in which money is carried," from Anglo-Fr. puche, O.N.Fr. pouche (13c.), O.Fr. poche, from a Gmc. source (cf. O.E. pocca "bag;" see poke (n.1)). Extended to cavities in animal bodies from mid-15c.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
pouch (pouch)
n.
A pocketlike space in the body.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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