pouch

n.

1. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
2. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
3. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
4. A sealed plastic or foil container used in packaging frozen or dehydrated food.
5. Something resembling a bag in shape: one's pouches under one's eyes.
6. Zoology. A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
7. Anatomy. A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.
8. Scots. A pocket.
9. Archaic. A purse for small coins.

v., pouched, pouch·ing, pouch·es.

v.tr.

1. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
2. To cause to resemble a pouch.
3. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.

v.intr.
To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.

[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

pouchy pouch'y adj.

verb

To curve outward past the normal or usual limit: bag, balloon, beetle, belly, bulge, jut, overhang, project, protrude, protuberate, stand out, stick out. See convex/concave.

n. a small bag or other flexible receptacle, typically carried in a pocket or attached to a belt: webbing with pouches for stun grenades.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

A pocket-like space, cavity or sac, e.g. one formed by bending back of the peritoneum on the surfaces of adjoining organs. See also bursa, pharyngeal pouch.

• abdominovesical p. — the pouchlike reflection of the peritoneum from the abdominal wall to the ventral surface of the bladder.
• adenohypophyseal p. — see Rathke's pouch (below).
• cutaneous p. — an invagination of the skin, especially a glandular invagination such as the infraorbital, inguinal or interdigital pouch of sheep (see below).
• guttural p. — see guttural pouch.
• infraorbital p. — a cutaneous pouch rostral to the medial canthus of the eye, 0.5 to 1 inch deep, in the sheep and many other ungulates. Called also lacrimal pouch.
• inguinal p. — an extensive cutaneous pouch in the inguinal region of male and female sheep. Called also mammary pouch.
• interdigital p. — occurs in the foot of the sheep and some other cloven-footed animals. Is a tubular invagination of the skin between the toes that anoints the hooves with its waxy secretion.
• lacrimal p. — see infraorbital pouch (above).
• mammary p. — see inguinal pouch (above).
• pubovesical p. — formed by a reflection of the peritoneum from the floor of the pelvis onto the neck of the bladder.
• Rathke's p. — a diverticulum from the embryonic buccal cavity from which the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland is developed.
• rectogenital p. — the pouch contained by the extension of the peritoneal cavity into the pelvic cavity between the rectum and the uterus or the uterus masculinus in the male.
• rectouterine p. — the pouch formed by the extension of the peritoneal cavity into the pelvic cavity between the uterus (or the uterus masculinus in the male) and the bladder.
• Seesel's p. — an outpouching of the embryonic pharynx rostrad to the pharyngeal membrane and caudal to Rathke's pouch.
• vesicogenital p. — the peritoneal pouch between the bladder and the genital fold in the male, or the uterus in the female.

IN BRIEF: A bag or sack usually made from a sturdy material to carry loose items.

He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - pose, pung, taske, løs lomme
v. tr. - stikke i lommen
v. intr. - pose

Nederlands (Dutch)
zak, geldzak, zakvormig orgaan, zakvormig maken

Français (French)
n. - sac, sacoche, petit sac, blague (à tabac), étui (à munitions), giberne, sac postal, bourse, poche (de vêtements), (Zool) poche ventrale, abajoue
v. tr. - empocher, placer dans une poche, faire prendre la forme d'une poche, (Zool) avaler (certains oiseaux/poissons)
v. intr. - prendre la forme d'une poche

Deutsch (German)
n. - Tasche, Beutel, Postsack, Tränensack, Kehlsack
v. - einsacken

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πουγκί, ταμπακέρα, σάκος, σακούλα, (ζωολ.) μάρσιπος, θύλακας
v. - καταπίνω, τσεπώνω, σακουλιάζω

Italiano (Italian)
borsa, borsetta

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bolsa (f), sacola (f)
v. - embolsar

Русский (Russian)
кошелек, сумка

Español (Spanish)
n. - cartuchera, petaca, morral, bolsa
v. tr. - embolsar, tragar, engullir, fruncir
v. intr. - hinchar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pung, liten påse, postväska
v. - påsa sig, bilda en påse (pung)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
小袋, 眼袋, 小包, 把...装入袋中, 使成袋状, 成袋状

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 小袋, 眼袋, 小包
v. tr. - 把...裝入袋中, 使成袋狀
v. intr. - 成袋狀

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 작은 주머니, 쌈지, (자물쇠 있는) 우편행낭
v. tr. - 주머니에 넣다
v. intr. - (옷의 일부가) 자루모양으로 되다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 小袋, 郵便袋, 弾薬袋, たるみ, 腹袋, ほお袋
v. - 袋に入れる, 袋のようにする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جيب, رزمه, تجعد تحت العين (فعل) يزوده بالمال, يشكل جرابا أو نحوه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כיס, תיק, שקית (מתחת לעין), אשפת-כדורים (פאוץ') בחגור צבאי, תיק עם מנעול, תרמיל-זרעים בצמח, כיס לנשיאת גורים אצל חיות מסוימות‬
v. tr. - ‮הכניס לכיס, ניכס לעצמו, סידר בצורת כיס, תפר חלק מבגד תלוי ככיס, בלע (עוף)‬
v. intr. - ‮התקין בצורת כיס‬

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Pouch String	pouch sling
Pen Pouch	roof pouch