Associations to the word «Pouch»

Pictures for the word «Pouch»

Wiktionary

POUCH, noun. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
POUCH, noun. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
POUCH, noun. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
POUCH, noun. (slang) (dated) (derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
POUCH, noun. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
POUCH, noun. (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
POUCH, noun. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
POUCH, verb. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
POUCH, verb. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
POUCH, verb. (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
POUCH, verb. (obsolete) To pout.
POUCH, verb. (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

Dictionary definition

POUCH, noun. A small or medium size container for holding or carrying things.
POUCH, noun. An enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air".
POUCH, noun. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican).
POUCH, verb. Put into a small bag.
POUCH, verb. Send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels.
POUCH, verb. Swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King