Other forms: pockets
A pocket is the small bag sewn into clothes for keys and coins. Trouser pocket, in my pocket, pocket money.
Women's clothing famously has fewer and smaller pockets than men's, which is a genuine and much-complained-about design difference. A pocket is also a small isolated area: a pocket of resistance, a pocket of air. Note out of pocket, meaning left worse off; pick a pocket; and pocket as a verb meaning to take, often dishonestly.
1nounpocketThe small bag sewn into clothes.
“He put his hands in his pockets to keep them warm.”
2nounisolatedA small isolated area.
“There are still pockets of snow on the hills in May.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
pocket is a small bag or area.
Anglo-Norman poquet is a diminutive of poque, a bag, and pouch and poke come from the same word. A pig in a poke is a pig in a bag, which is a pocket writ large.
Anglo-Norman
pochete
Middle English
English, today
Built from
From Middle English pocket, from Anglo-Norman pochete. From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman fro, fro-nor poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic puhô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European bew- (“to blow, swell”). Equivalent to poke + -et. a doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, gsw Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA