noun
Meaning 1
A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
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noun
A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
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noun
An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: marsupium
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noun
Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
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noun
A protuberant belly; a paunch.
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Usage: dated, derogatory, slang
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noun
A cyst or sac containing fluid.
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noun
A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
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verb
To enclose within a pouch.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
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verb
To swallow.
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verb
To pout.
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Usage: obsolete, rare
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verb
To pocket; to put up with.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
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Broader terms: bag
Narrower terms: mailbag, mail pouch, pocket, sporran, tobacco pouch, waist pack, belt bag
noun
(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
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Synonyms: pocket
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Broader terms: sac
Narrower terms: gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill, utricle, utriculus, auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii, auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix, cheek pouch, marsupium, scrotum
noun
an enclosed space
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sac, sack, pocket
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Broader terms: cavity, enclosed space
verb
swell or protrude outwards
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Synonyms: bulge, protrude
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Broader terms: change shape, change form, deform
Narrower terms: bulk
verb
send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
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Broader terms: mail, get off
verb
put into a small bag
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Broader terms: bag
History
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French puche Old Northern French pouchebor. Middle English pouche English pouch 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). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.
Across languages
109 source translations are retained for this English entry.