Other forms: pouches
A pouch is a small soft bag, often closed with a drawstring. A leather pouch, tobacco pouch, a small pouch.
It is soft where a case is rigid, and the drawstring is what usually distinguishes it. Tobacco pouches and coin pouches are the traditional ones. In zoology, a pouch is the fold of skin a marsupial carries its young in, which is what defines the whole group. Note that a pelican's pouch holds several litres; and that pouch and pocket and poke are the same word family.
1nounpouchA small soft bag, often closed with a drawstring.
“He kept his coins in a small leather pouch tied with a string.”
2nounfoldThe fold of skin a marsupial carries its young in.
“The baby kangaroo peeped out of its mother's pouch.”
pouch is a small bag.
Old French poche came from Frankish poko, a bag. Pocket is a diminutive of the same word, and poke — as in a pig in a poke — is the English form.
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English, today
pouch
From Middle English pouche, from fro-nor pouche, from puche. From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from fro-nor pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman - variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish pokō (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). a doublet of poke; compare pocket.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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