Definitions for pouch

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pouch pouch

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IPA: /paʊtʃ/

Pouch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in pouch (chopu).

Definitions for pouch

noun

1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities:
2. a small moneybag.
3. a bag for carrying mail.
4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
5. something 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. Botany. a baglike cavity.

verb (used with object)

1. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
2. to arrange in the form of a pouch.
3. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.

Origin of pouch

1350-1400; Middle English pouche Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke²

Examples for pouch

Due to its shape, the pouch fills up so quickly that patients feel full after eating even the smallest portions of food.

And he thrust his hand into his pouch for money to pay his score.

Stuffed into the pouch on the back of the seat in front of me is the local newspaper.

I have crowns in my pouch, my sweet, and I mean to spend them.

He took a long string from his pouch and fastened one end to an arrow.

A $3 pouch of Bugler ends up retailing inside for about $600—a 20,000% markup.

In that same picture, in a pouch in the back of the front seat, there is a magazine: a copy of Newsweek.

Then he thrust his hand into his pouch and drew thence four golden angels.

Taking up the pouch, she handed it to him, and he clutched it with a strange eagerness.

The other daughter had been saved from harm when a notebook with a pouch of pens stopped a bullet.