pouchn.

Brit.

/paʊtʃ/, U.S.

/paʊtʃ/

Forms: Middle English poche, Middle English pouuche, Middle English puche, Middle English pulche (transmission error), Middle English 1600s (1800s– English regional (northern)) pooch, Middle English–1600s pouche, Middle English–1600s powch, Middle English–1700s powche, Middle English– pouch, 1500s poych, 1500s pvche, 1500s–1600s (1800s English regional (Herefordshire)) poutch, 1600s puch; Scottish pre-1700 peuch, pre-1700 poiche, pre-1700 pouche, pre-1700 poutche, pre-1700 pouthe (transmission error), pre-1700 powtche, pre-1700 puitche, pre-1700 push, pre-1700 putch, pre-1700 putche, pre-1700 1700s puch, pre-1700 1700s–1800s poutch, pre-1700 1700s– pouch, 1700s– pootch, 1800s– pooch.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pouche, poche.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French (northern), Middle French pouche (French pouche (now regional: chiefly Normandy, also western)) small bag or sack in which things are kept or carried (1180 as puche ), bag or sack in general, e.g. for grain (beginning of the 14th cent.), variant of Old French, Middle French, French poche bag, sack (14th cent.), purse (14th cent. or earlier), small cavity in an organism which resembles a bag, of natural or pathological origin (1377 in an isolated attestation, subsequently from 1694), distensible sac used for food storage beneath the bills of some birds (1530 in Palsgrave), pocket in a garment (1573), baggy area of skin underneath a person's eye (1862 or earlier; usually in plural) < an unattested Old Dutch form *pokka (see poke n.¹). Compare post-classical Latin pocha , pochia , pucha , puchea , puchia bag, pouch (from 13th cent. in British sources), Old Occitan pocha pocket in a garment (14th cent. in an isolated attestation; Occitan pòcha ). Compare poke n.¹ and earlier pough n. Compare also pocket n.Apparently attested earlier as a surname, although it is unclear whether this reflects currency of the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: Gillebertus Poche (1184). With sense 2a(b) compare classical Latin marsūpium marsupium n.; this sense is apparently not paralleled in French until later (1764). With sense 5 compare earlier pouch v. 5.

a. A small bag or sack used esp. for carrying personal items; (spec.) a small bag for tobacco. Also: a (detachable) pocket worn outside a garment. Also figurative.With quot. a1325 cf. pig in a poke n. at pig n.¹ Phrases 4.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > small

poucha1325

pautenerc1330

satchela1362

sachet1483

potewera1650

caba1833

baglet1885

baggie1934

a1325 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Cambr.) xxxvi, in Anglia (1881) 4 189 (MED) Wan man ȝevit þe a pig, opin þe powch.

1327 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 41 (MED) [A silken] pouch.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 11 A ioly popper baar he in his pouche [v.r. puche].

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 411 Powche, marsupium.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 408 (MED) The graynes ripe..Putte in a poche [L. fiscella] of palme, and with the wrynge Let presse hem.

a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 139 (MED) Galaunt, with thy daggar a-crosse, And thy hanggyng pouche vpon thy narse, Thow art ful abyl to stele a horse.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 557 A Pouche: a great bagge or sachell.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Empocher, to impouch, to put into a pouch or budget.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 88 By his side a Pouch he wore Replete with strange Hermetick Powder.

1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 234 Seven pictures of God the Father in form of a little old man in a blue and red coat with a pouch by his side.

1799 J. Smith Acct. Remarkable Occurr. 11 A pouch, which..contained tobacco, killegenico, or dry sumach leaves which they mix with their tobacco.

1823 T. Jefferson Let. 12 June in Writings (1984) 1474 The Indian Chief said he did not go to war for every petty injury by itself, but put it into his pouch, and when that was full, he then made war.

1861 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 3 119/1 The little Pouches..still continue to be worn, suspended from the waistband by a chain and hook, and sometimes by a cord.

1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 146 I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me, and smoked for some time, in silence.

1948 Glasgow Herald 6 Sept. 2/1 To his standard equipment of pipe, pouch, and cigarette case, he has now added a little tin box for dowts.

2003 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 5 Oct. b1 The local Indians retrieved stones that represented special memories and kept them in pouches.

b. spec. A small bag in which money is carried; a purse.

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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [noun]

pungeOE

by-girdlec1000

purselOE

almonerc1330

pouch1355

almonryc1450

penny purse1523

cherry-bag1539

money bag1562

bung1567

jan1610

penny pouch1650

coda1680

zone1692

spung1728

money purse1759

spleuchan1787

skin1795

sporran1817

fisc1820

moneybelt1833

poke1859

purse-belt1901

1355 in Cal. Fine Rolls (1921) VI. 438 [3] pouches [and 3 belts].

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 55 (MED) Ye presente God and his seyntes wytnes to youre wyckednes, consumynge othir mennys poochys to fulfill your pursys.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1349 The halle Was plated half a foote thikke Of gold..As fyn as ducat in Venyse, Of which to lite al my pouche is.

1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 289 (MED) A Powche, vbi A purse.

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Pv These..dare I nat playnly towche For all these crosses and syluer in my powche.

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor i. iii. 82 Teaster Ile haue in pouch When thou shalt want.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 158 Could Catechise a Money-Box, And prove all Powches Orthodox.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 417 But I press'd it on him, and made him accept it, and it was not much less worth than his Leather-pouch full of Spanish Gold.

1832 H. Martineau Ella of Garveloch i. 14 Out comes the pouch, as sure as I show myself to gather the rent.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xiii. 8 Know he boasts but a pouch of empty cobwebs.

1931 P. S. Buck Good Earth i. 9 He took from his girdle a small greasy pouch of grey cloth and counted the money in it.

1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Oct. b3 Some people were confident, carrying pouches of money or certified checks.

c. A pocket sewn into a garment. Chiefly Scottish.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > pocket

pocketc1450

pouch1539

pit1811

1539 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 253 For bukrem to be ane tulat and ane pouche to it [sc. a coat].

a1617 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 65 He had alwayes a New Testament in Englis in his poutche.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 87 For fear of spoiling their Caps..in the Rain, they will put 'em in their Pouches, and go Bare-Headed.

a1726 D. Craufurd Poems (1798) 81 I'm grown up sae big a fallow, That Andrew Shirrefs an' his crutch, Could maist creep in o' my coat-pouch.

1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxvii. 64 From his pouch his sketch-book drew.

1887 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights III. dxxvii. 75 But the lad (forasmuch as he had placed it at the bottom of his breast-pocket and his other pouches being full of gems bulged outwards) could not reach it with his fingers to hand it over.

1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xix. 180 She saw 'im twa or three times put his hand in his pouch.

1901 Scotsman 12 Mar. 5/4 Standing about..‘wi' naething in his pouches but his hauns’.

1929 Peace's Orkney Almanac 138 I keep da bit o' breek here i' me pooch tae dicht my specs.

1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 166 He'd put him his Highland pride in his pouch and muttered All right.

1949 N. E. Jacob Mary of Delight v. 299 Ah've brought ma siller, a' Ah have i' the worrld; it's aboot seven pun' i' ma pooch.

2004 R. Shepherd & N. Harper Dash o Doric: One for Road 102 ‘Is that bottle the only consolation you have left in the world?’ ‘No,’ said the drunk. ‘I've anither een in ma pooch.’

2013 @eirinntaylorx 10 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Never walkin we ma hands in ma pooch again. Just fell flat on my face walkin up the stairs.

d. Firearms. A bag or case (formerly of leather, now usually of canvas or synthetic webbing) used for carrying gunpowder, shot, bullets, etc. Also in earlier use: a wooden cartridge box.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > cartridge-box or -pouch

bandoleer1611

cartridge1627

pouch1627

vandaliroa1660

collar1672

patrontash1685

cartouche-box1697

cartridge-box1699

cartridge-case1769

salt-box1803

cartouche1807

patron1829

thimble-belt1901

stall1906

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 57 You must be carefull to cleare the decks with..fire-pots, poutches of powder.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 19 Their Bandaliers fill'd with Powder, and Shot in their Pooches.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 24 He brought a great Leather Pouch which held about a Pound and half of Powder,..and another with Shot.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 45 I delivered up both my Pistols in the same manner, as I had done my Scymiter, and then my Pouch of Powder and Bullets.

1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 209 A letter..complaining of certain pouches lately sent out from England for the use of the Portuguese troops.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 219/2 Pouch, a case of strong leather, lined with tin divisions, for the purpose of carrying a soldier's ammunition.

1896 C. G. D. Roberts Forge in Forest v. 64 ‘I don't,’ replied Marc, simply, as he handed me out a pouch of bullets and a pouch of slugs.

1947 Port Arthur (Texas) News 3 Aug. 5/5 He saw a man standing on the corner with a rifle, and there was a pouch of ammunition at his side.

1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 261 In my ammo pouch, against the sten magazines, I had stuffed the picture of Hanuman.

1997 Daily Record (Nexis) 5 Mar. 15 Detectives..found a silencer for the gun and a pouch of bullets hanging from the dashboard.

e. = mail pouch n. at mail n.² Compounds 3.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > mail-bag

letter baga1655

bag1702

postbag1706

mailbag1812

pouch1833

mail pouch1843

mail sack1869

1833 Niles' Reg. 44 337/2 The letter mail bag, or ‘Pouch’, was missed between New Brunswick (N.J.) and New York.

1879 Post Master General's Rep. in Parl. Papers 1878–9 (C. 2405) XXI. 197 The..number of pouches exchanged with these Travelling Post Offices..in 24 hours is now 1090.

1889 Cent. Mag. 38 606/2 At 3 o'clock a.m. the European mails closed, and the pouches put on board the Aller carried the usual copies for the foreign circulation.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Apr. 17/7 Three bandits..last night held up a United States mail truck here and robbed it of three pouches of registered mail.

1963 Western Kansas Press 22 Aug. 8/1 You can always tell them you're late and have to keep going to get your whole pouch of mail delivered.

1997 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 29 June 3 Men and women don't have to have skin like a mailman's pouch.

f. = diplomatic bag at diplomatic adj. 3.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > mail-bag > diplomatic bag

bag1816

diplomatic bag1956

pouch1958

1958 L. Durrell Mountolive vi. 140 When the Syrians want to be clever, they don't use a diplomatic courier; they confide their pouch to a lady, the vice-consul's niece.

1968 ‘D. Torr’ Treason Line 163 I've been down here for the past hour checking the airgrams for the Washington pouch.

1994 Life (Nexis) Apr. 114 I'm a diplomatic courier and I've got pouches on the plane. I have to stay and get 'em out.

a. Anatomy and Zoology. An enclosed cavity or hollow structure in an animal body that resembles a bag or pocket; a sac; spec. †(a) the stomach of a fish (obsolete); (b) a cavity enclosed by a fold of tissue in which certain animals, esp. marsupial mammals, carry their young; a marsupium; (c) a distensible sac for food storage, as beneath the bill of some birds (e.g. pelicans and cormorants) and in the cheeks of some mammals (esp. rodents and certain monkeys).cheek-, Douglas's, gill, Rathke's pouch: see the first element.

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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > stomach

poucha1399

pokec1450

the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > neck or throat > appendage or pouch on

wattle1513

gill1596

rattles1611

gorget1703

pouch1774

parapatagium1887

palea1890

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > pouch or receptacle

pouch1803

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > cheek-pouch

cheek pouch1653

pouch1803

a1399 in S. Pegge Forme of Cury (1780) 47 Take the Powche and the Lyuour of haddok, codlyng, and hake and of ooþer fisshe, parboile hem, take hem and dyce hem small.

c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 101 (MED) And þen take a pike..And slyt the pouuche..And whan þe sauce biginneth to boyle..wassh þe pike and cast him þere-in, and caste þe pouche and fey there-to.

?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. at Pouche Sethe the pouche as ye do of a pik and mynce it with the grave.

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xix. 43 [The shark] is the most ravenous Fish knowne in the Sea... In the Puch of them hath beene found hatts, cappes, shooes, shirts, leggs and armes of men.

1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 107 A Denomination might be best given to it, from that Particular, wherein 'tis most distinguished..which is that remarkable Pouch or Marsupium.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 197 This is a pouch, the entrance of which lies immediately under the tongue, and capable of holding near seven quarts of water.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. I. 47 The Barbary Ape has a face not much unlike that of a dog... The cheeks are furnished with pouches.

1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 299 Isopoda. The females carry their ova under the second and third segments of the body, in a pouch formed of approximated scales.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 435 The respiratory system consists of gill-pouches or sacs, seven on each side in the Lampreys.

1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xviii. 219 Baby kangaroos are very tiny, and after they get into the pouch they attach themselves to the mother's nipples and remain there.

1967 D. Morris Naked Ape (1969) i. 27 No food storage takes place except, in a very temporary way, in the bulging cheek pouches of certain monkeys.

1996 Time 28 Oct. 85/3 Pteranodon is thought to have scooped up its prey and stashed it in a pelican-like throat pouch.

b. Botany. A bag-shaped structure in a plant; spec. (a) a short, rounded or bag-shaped seed vessel; a silicle (now rare); (b) a baglike cavity in the corolla of certain plants, esp. orchids.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun]

knop1398

seed vessel1562

pouch1577

bottle1609

uterus1682

pericarpium1691

vessel1691

pericarp1759

crust1776

1577 in B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husb. iv. f. 191^v It creepeth lowe by the ground,..with a seede inclosed in little powches, like a shepeheards purse.

1717 P. Blair Let. to Dr. Baynard 105 The manner of the opening of the Pouches and pouring out of the Seeds.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 48 Isatis. Pouch deciduous.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 9 The silicle or pouch is a shorter, broader pod [than the silique].

1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised ii. 69 As soon as the disc is drawn out of the pouch the movement of depression commences.

1952 A. R. Clapham et al. Flora Brit. Isles 1306 Ophrys..pollinia 2, narrowed downwards into long caudicles which are attached basally to separate ± globose viscidia enclosed in the distinct rostellar pouches.

1987 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 18 361 Angelonia..is known to be visited by Centris species that insert their legs into these floral pouches to extract the oil film.

c. Medicine. An abnormal or artificially created structure or space in the body that resembles a bag or pocket; an aneurysm, a cyst (now rare); a sac, a diverticulum.

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the world > life > the body > internal organs > [noun] > of specific shape or formation

pocketa1450

cystis1543

vesike1577

vesicle1578

belly1594

ventricle1641

vesicula1705

pouch1712

cyst1721

sac1741

leaflet1826

calyx1828

node1892

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity

pita1275

holec1300

cella1398

den1398

follicle?a1425

purse?a1425

pocketa1450

fossac1475

cystis1543

trench1565

conceptory1576

vesike1577

vesicle1578

vault1594

socket1601

bladderet1615

cistern1615

cavern1626

ventricle1641

bladder1661

antrum1684

conceptaculum1691

capsule1693

cellule1694

loculus1694

sinus1704

vesicula1705

vesica1706

fosse1710

pouch1712

cyst1721

air chamber1725

fossula1733

alveole1739

sac1741

sacculus1749

locule1751

compartment1772

air cell1774

fossule1803

umbilicus1811

conceptacle1819

cœlia1820

utricle1822

air sac1835

saccule1836

ampulla1845

vacuole1853

scrobicule1880

faveolus1882

1712 Bibliotheca Anatomica II. 423/1 The Dilatation of an Artery, which being distended and enlarg'd by little and little, forms a Bag or Pouch that is fill'd up with Arterial Blood.

1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xiv. 200 These pouches are often large enough to admit the end of the finger, and contain occasionally small calculi.

1901 Lancet 18 May 1387 (title) A pharyngeal pouch of large size removed by operation.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. li. 1186/2 A Heidenhain pouch or vagally denervated pouch responds to humoral but not to parasympathetic stimuli.

1991 Lancet 25 May 1295/2 A 29-year-old woman who had a subtotal colectomy and ileostomy in 1988 for fulminant ulcerative colitis, subsequently had an ileoanal pouch constructed a year later.

d. A baggy area of skin underneath a person's eye.

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the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [noun] > at eyes

epicanthus1833

bag1867

pouch1891

Mongolian fold1908

1891 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 21 Mar. His lips were parted and pale, and there were deep pouches under the eyes.

1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. vii. 128 The loose flesh of his face hung down under his cheeks and chin, like a hound's dew-laps, and he had great pouches under his eyes.

a1953 E. O'Neill Hughie (1959) 8 His blue eyes have drooping lids and puffy pouches under them.

1997 Y. M. Murray Locas 78 Ladies with brown blotches on their skin and pouches under their eyes.

†3. The name of a game. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others

sitisota1400

papsea1450

half-bowl1477

pluck at the crow1523

white and black1555

running game1581

blow-pointa1586

hot cocklesa1586

one penny1585

cockelty bread1595

pouch1600

venter-point1600

hinch-pinch1603

hardhead1606

poor and rich1621

rowland-hoe1622

hubbub1634

handicap?a1653

owl1653

ostomachy1656

prelledsa1660

quarter-spellsa1660

yert-point1659

bob-her1702

score1710

parson has lost his cloak1712

drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754

French Fox1759

goal1765

warpling o' the green1768

start1788

kiss-in-the-ring1801

steal-clothes1809

steal-coat1816

petits paquets1821

bocce1828

graces1831

Jack-in-the-box1836

hot hand1849

sparrow-mumbling1852

Aunt Sally1858

gossip1880

Tambaroora1882

spoof1884

fishpond1892

nim1901

diabolo1906

Kim's game1908

beaver1910

treasure-hunt1913

roll-down1915

rock scissors paper1927

scissors cut paper1927

scissors game1927

the dozens1928

toad in the hole1930

game1932

scissors paper stone1932

Roshambo1936

Marco Polo1938

scavenger hunt1940

skish1940

rock paper scissors1947

to play chicken1949

sounding1962

joning1970

arcade game1978

1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will 2048 Thou and I will play at poutch, to morrow morning for a breakfast.

4. Nautical. A small bulkhead or partition in a ship's hold, for stowing corn or other loose cargo. Now historical.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > division made by bulkheads or partitions

pouch1625

1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (MS BL Add. 21571) f. 105 Pouches, are small Bulk-heads made in howld either thwart ships or longst Ships.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 33 The Ballast wil sometimes shoot, that is, run from one side to another, and so will Corne and Salt, if you make not Pouches or Bulk-heads.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Powches, so the Seamen call small Bulkheads made in the Hold of a Ship, to stow Corn, Goods, or the like, that it do not shoot from one side to the other.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 540 Pouches, wooden bulk-heads across the hold of cargo vessels, to prevent grain or light shingle from shifting.

1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 665 Pouches, an old name for the small bulkheads, often temporary, erected in the holds of a cargo ship when a shifting cargo, such as corn or coal, is taken on board, their purpose being to prevent movement of the cargo when the ship rolls or pitches.

1985 P. Clissold Ansted's Dict. Sea Terms (ed. 3) 219 Pouches, in vessels which are laden in bulk, strong bulkheads (called pouches) are placed across the hold to prevent the cargo from shifting.

5. colloquial. A present of money; a tip. Cf. pouch v. 5. Now rare.

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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift of money

largessea1325

gratuity1540

behoof1596

benevolency1698

pouch1880

handout1882

handshake1958

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > tip

bountethc1440

gratitude1535

vail1605

gratulance1608

gratilitya1616

spill1675

baksheesh1686

simony1707

perquisite1721

tip1755

grace1769

buckshee1773

mancia1798

bonus1834

pouch1880

gravy1910

étrenne1928

sling1948

small1962

toke1971

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. iii. 25 Your grandfather..pouched me at Harrow, and it was the largest pouch I ever had.

1909 Daily Chron. 23 July 3/2 Filled with the ‘pouch’ from generous relatives the boys went off with a volley of peashooters, and the old Etonians—fathers—admired.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive and similative.

pouch-belt n.

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1754 Regimental Standing Orders in Syst. Camp-discipline (1757) 82 When the Men lay down on the Guard Bed, they shall always turn their Pouch Belts wrong-side outwards, by which they will be preserved much cleaner.

1812 Sporting Mag. 39 167 Cavalry uniform, a pouch belt, and a sabre-tache.

1974 ‘B. Mather’ White Dacoit v. 50 Rankine, his escort, had arrived, dressed..with..pouchbelt and sword.

† pouch-lid n. Obsolete

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?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iii. sig. Liij As ye wolde fasten a nedle with threde on your bosome or pouche lid.

1835 J. D. Carrick Laird of Logan 162 The common gauge o' the fur was my pouch-lids.

1891 R. Ford Thistledown 296 Better at padding pouch-lids than handlin' the goose.

pouch-shaped adj.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object

camois1664

pouch-likea1676

scaphoidal1681

spoon-likea1686

umbilicated1693

umbilicate1698

saucer-shaped1753

boat-shaped1760

pouchy1786

cupped1796

urn-shaped1796

naviform1816

spoon-shaped1817

urn-like1826

vase-shaped1832

bag-shaped1836

basin-like1836

trough-like1839

urceiform1840

vase-like1840

saucered1847

bag-like1849

sac-like1849

pouch-shaped1854

basin-shaped1859

trough-shaped1871

bucketed1886

spooned1890

1854 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide 188/2 These eggs, which are very numerous, 400 or 500 being sometimes placed on a single horse, are somewhat pouch-shaped, and chagreened with transverse and longitude striae.

1938 Econ. Geogr. 14 242/1 St. John's.., lying on a well-protected, pouch-shaped coastal indentation was early used as a fishing base in the days when settlement was prohibited.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 41 This superb plant for the rockery, forming cushiony masses of foliage and bearing in summer pouch-shaped flowers.

b. In the sense ‘having a pouch-like or baggy shape’.

pouch shirt n.

ΚΠ

1898 St. James's Gaz. 12 Jan. 12/1 The pouch shirt is the last new make.

1991 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 11 Feb. Casual pebble-knit sweaters, jersey toppers, pouch shirts and pull-on pants and shorts by Merona, at Target Stores.

pouch waist n.

ΚΠ

1895 Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 7 Mar. The pouch-waist is the ugly name of an ugly fashion, but one which just now is the rage. It is to have the front of the waist hang over the skirt just in the front line, and the most elegant gowns are made in this way.

1902 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 4 Sept. 5/2 The bride-to-be..might get herself a coat of velvet and put it with long skirts and with a pouch waist, open all the way to the belt to show the waist of the gown.

C2.

† pouch-bone n. Zoology Obsolete rare = marsupial bone n. at marsupial adj. and n. Compounds 1a.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1890 Cent. Dict. Pouch-bone, a marsupial bone; one of the ossa marsupialia of marsupials and monotremes.

pouch-gill n. [after scientific Latin Marsipobranchii (see marsipobranch n. and adj.)] Zoology (a) rare the pouch-like gill of agnathan fishes (lampreys and hagfishes), which opens to the surface through a pore rather than a slit; †(b) rare a fish having such gills, a marsipobranch (obsolete).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1887 Manitoba Daily Free Press 7 Mar. This specimen of the Marsipobranchii or pouch gill family has some peculiar features, and should be sent to Ottawa or Washington for a critical examination.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pouch-gill, 1. One of the Marsipobranchii; a lamprey or hag, having the gills in a pouch. 2. The so-called basket of the marsipobranchiates.

1944 Angry Penguins Autumn 34 The lamprey, eel-like pseudo-fish with sucker mouth, pouch gills, and seven spiracles on each side.., slithers insidiously to safety.

† pouch-gilled adj. [after marsipobranch adj.] Zoology Obsolete rare having pouch-like gills, as characteristic of lampreys and hagfishes; = marsipobranch adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [adjective] > having specific type of gills

holobranchious1854

marsipobranch1874

marsipobranchiate1878

holobranchiate1885

pouch-gilled1885

purse-gilled1890

1885 W. K. Parker On Mammalian Descent ii. 45 In those pouch-gilled (marsipobranch) types..these parts are all separate, neat, finished tracts of cartilage.

pouch-hook n. U.S. (now rare) a hook on which a mailbag is hung.

ΚΠ

1907 N.E.D. at Pouch Pouch-hook.

1914 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 15 Sept. 5/4 Mr. James F. Pryor, mail clerk at the postoffice is suffering from injuries received when he ran a sharp mail pouch hook into his arm.

1950 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 21 Mar. 9/4 The mail pouch hook had missed a mailbag and contacted the water tower cable, causing it to whip around and hit Donald in the head.]

pouch-mouse n. rare (a) a marsupial mouse (cf. pouched mouse n. at pouched adj. Compounds 2); †(b) a pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides, of south-western Canada and the western U.S. (obsolete).

ΚΠ

1871 St. Pauls July 322 Hamilton presented me with a charming little grey quadruped with yellow feet, of about the size of a guinea-pig. It is known classically as the Antechinus flavipes, but goes popularly by the name of the yellow-footed pouch mouse.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pouch-mouse, one of the smaller pocket-gophers, Thomomys talpoides.

1981 Chromosoma 83 131 Gel analysis of KpnI digests of DNA from mouse, calf, horse, deer (muntjack) and a marsupial (flat-tailed pouch-mouse) showed that the KpnI-A-D segments characteristic of primate DNAs were absent in these mammals.

pouch pocket n. originally U.S. a large external pocket resembling or likened to a pouch.

ΚΠ

1892 Chicago Tribune 14 Aug. 4/4 The quaint little pouch pockets swinging from the girdle which went with our grandmothers' frocks... Let's have a renaissance of these chatelaine pockets.

1939 Times 22 May 20/3 The Royal Army Service Corps..uniform..comprises khaki blouse and trousers with pouch pockets for iron rations and field dressings.

2002 ‘H. Hill’ Flight from Deathrow xxv. 155 I..reached for the Daily Mirror that was tucked into the leather pouch-pocket on the back of the seat in front of me.

† pouch-toad n. Obsolete rare = marsupial frog n. at marsupial adj. and n. Compounds 1b(b).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1890 Cent. Dict. Pouch-toad, a toad of the genus Nototrema,..which hatches its eggs and carries its tadpoles in a hole in its back.

Derivatives

ˈpouch-like adj. resembling a pouch.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object

camois1664

pouch-likea1676

scaphoidal1681

spoon-likea1686

umbilicated1693

umbilicate1698

saucer-shaped1753

boat-shaped1760

pouchy1786

cupped1796

urn-shaped1796

naviform1816

spoon-shaped1817

urn-like1826

vase-shaped1832

bag-shaped1836

basin-like1836

trough-like1839

urceiform1840

vase-like1840

saucered1847

bag-like1849

sac-like1849

pouch-shaped1854

basin-shaped1859

trough-shaped1871

bucketed1886

spooned1890

a1676 J. Cooke Mellificium chirurgiæ 390 Next lies the Cawl, a Membrane thin, fat, double, disjoyned in some places, stretcht to the Navel, to the Groins preternaturally, also Womb, &c... Its rise is from the Mesentery, and is Pouch-like.

1808 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXVII. 1875 Fruitstalks from little oblong, hairy, black, lateral, pouch-like sheaths, very remarkable for being pendulous from the branch.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 572/2 Two prolongations..of a pouch-like form.

1895 S. S. Buckman in Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 374 The pouchlike cheeks of a baby.

1958 Gardener's Golden Treasury 83 Rose purple, lip curious, somewhat pouch-like with a tuft of golden hair in the throat.

2001 Nat. New Eng. May 59/1 To jet through the water, each octopus will draw water into its pouch-like mantle until it swells like a balloon.

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pouchv.

Brit.

/paʊtʃ/, U.S.

/paʊtʃ/

Forms: see pouch n.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pouch n.

Etymology: < pouch n. Compare French pocher to put in a bag (1660: see poach v.²).

a. transitive. To put into or enclose in a pouch; to put into one's pocket. Also in extended use: to take possession of, to ‘bag’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into a pocket, purse, or pouch

pursea1400

imbursec1530

poucha1566

pocket1588

impouch1611

budget1618

impocket1728

fob1818

trouser1865

the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate

ownOE

rimec1275

takec1300

appropre1366

to keep, take to or for one's own storec1385

to get awayc1480

proper1496

apprehenda1522

impropry1526

impropriate1567

carve1578

forestall1581

appropriate1583

propriate1587

pocket1597

impatronize1611

propertya1616

asself1632

appropriatea1634

swallow1637

to swallow up1654

sink1699

poucha1774

spheterize1779

sack1807

fob1818

to look back to1822

mop1861

annex1865

a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Civ Cha [= I've] poucht them vp all ready, they are sure in hold.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. ix. 38 Come bring your Saint, pouch'd in his leather Shrine.

1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 12 He had already pouched the half ring.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) ii. 170 They pouch the gowd, nor fash the town For weights an' scales to weigh them.

1832 H. Martineau Ella of Garveloch iii. 38 He twisted their necks..and pouched them in his plaid.

1840 F. Trollope Widow Married I. ii. 39 A pretty sum you must have pouched last night.

1890 Sci. Amer. 25 Jan. 55/3 They [sc. letters] have next to be ‘pouched’... The packages of letters are thrown dexterously into the proper compartments.

1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xii. 129 It was a cheque..made out to the order of R. Little. ‘What's that for?’ ‘Expenses,’ said Bingo, pouching it.

1995 Snooker Scene May 27/1 Rod Lawler pouched his fifth first prize from the monthly pro-ams at club Snooker.

†b. transitive. figurative. To put up with. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > endure patiently [verb (transitive)] > bear with or tolerate

forbearc897

tholec950

bearOE

abidec1300

bidea1325

takec1330

suffer1340

wielda1375

to have patience with (also in, toward)c1384

supportc1384

to sit with ——c1400

sustainc1400

thulgec1400

acceptc1405

to away with1528

brook1530

well away1533

to bear with —1538

digest1553

to comport with1565

stand1567

purse?1571

to put up1573

well away1579

comport1588

fadge1592

abrook1594

to come away1594

to take up with1609

swallow1611

embracea1616

to pack up1624

concocta1627

to set down bya1630

to take with ——1632

tolerate1646

brook1658

stomach1677

pouch1819

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iii. 85 I will pouch up no such affront before my parishioners.

c. transitive. Cricket. To catch (the ball); to perform (a catch); to dismiss (a batter) by catching the ball.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > field [verb (transitive)] > catch

to catch out1712

hold1752

catch1789

take1836

pouch1910

1910 A. A. Milne Day's Play 114 I heard Slip call ‘Mine’ and he pouched the ball.

1963 Times 13 June 13/3 A series of pulls which ended with a catch at the wicket would appear in this form: ‘After several cow-shots into the Great Beyond, Basher was neatly pouched by the timber-watcher.’

1983 Daily Tel. 3 Sept. 12 A high catch to a fielder can be ‘down his throat’ and—if it is caught—safely ‘pouched’.

2004 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 20 July Captain Brian Lara pouched a comfortable catch at first slip.

2. transitive. Chiefly of fish and certain birds: to take (something) into the stomach, to swallow; (also) to take into a pouch in the mouth or gullet. Also figurative. Cf. pouch n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > [verb (transitive)] > swallow

poucha1643

the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > swallow

pouch1775

a1643 W. Cartwright Poems in Comedies (1651) sig. P6^v Sir John did not nibble, but pouch'd the deceit.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vii. 154 The Pike..will have line enough to go to his hold and powch the bait.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. i. 364 The common heron hath..a long neck..to reach prey, a wide extensive throat to pouch it.

1775 G. White in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 267 Swifts when..shot..discover a little lump of insects in their mouths, which they pouch and hold under their tongue.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 13 First allowing the fish, by a little slackening the line a small time to pouch the bait.

1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 164 They'll..leave the good..ait-meal bannocks to..be pouched by them that draff an' bran wad better hae mensed!

1892 E. Arnold Potiphar's Wife 96 That purple-winged hen-starling..Flies with a fat grub to her nested darling, Nor dreams to pouch it!

1902 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 702/1 The pike..declined to pouch the unsavoury morsel, and spat it out.

1948 Amer. Midland Naturalist 39 537 On two occasions squirrels..were seen to pause and eat small quantities which they had pouched.

1990 Ecology 71 2341/1 It might be that as [a kangaroo rat's] cheek pouches are filled increasingly more time is required to pouch individual seeds.

3. transitive. To purse (the lips); to push (the mouth) out; to pout. Frequently with out.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > express ill humour [verb (transitive)] > pout (the lips)

pouch1647

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (intransitive)] > lips

poutc1484

pouch1647

blub1684

unpurse1838

moue1938

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs xiv. 266 If this make thee frown, And pouch thy lips out.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. x. 53 He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up, and swelled; but answered me not.

1867 G. W. Harris Sut Lovingood 213 He cum sighin an' groanin wif his mouf pouched out, up tu the coffin wifout seein Seize in the corner at all.

1999 G. Bear Darwin's Radio xxi. 103 She made an approving and speculative face, pouching out her lips, and said, ‘It's damned scary’.

4. intransitive. To form a pouch or pouch-like cavity. See sense 6b, and cf. pouching n.

ΚΠ

1683 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 364 On one side was a large passage into the second [ventricle or stomach]; which pouching out had its two ends winding like a horn.

1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) B. 187 92 The polypal wall pouched itself upwards in a ring of radial folds.

1941 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 60 20 The tube where it arises from the body of the follicle is pouched out right and left.

1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 20 The pocket pouched under the weight, but when he closed his jacket, there was no bulge on the outside.

1987 J. C. McElroy Bone Flames 34 You've learned to clean your plate your stomach pouching like the mating wattle of some featherless bird.

5. transitive. colloquial. To give a person (money) as a gift; to tip or bribe (a person). Cf. pouch n. 1b, 5. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > supply (person) with money

money1528

pouch1810

fund1900

the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > give money > as a gift

pouch1810

1810 P. B. Shelley Let. 1. Apr. in Compl. Wks. (1926) VIII. 5 Pouch the reviewers—£10 will be sufficient I should suppose, and that I can with the greatest ease repay when we meet at Passion week.

a1833 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1845) 66 Charles Townley, Esq...pouched me half a guinea to purchase paper and chalk.

1864 Eton School Days i. 4 ‘Did your governor “pouch” you?’ asked Purefoy, as they were going towards the Station.

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. iii. 25 Your grandfather..pouched me at Harrow, and it was the largest pouch I ever had.

a. transitive. To make or arrange (an article of clothing, piece of fabric, etc.) so as to hang loosely in a pouch-like form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > other

fur13..

buttonc1380

lashc1440

pointa1470

set1530

tuft1535

vent1547

ruff1548

spangle1548

string1548

superbody1552

to pull out1553

quilt1555

flute1578

seam1590

seed1604

overtrim1622

ruffle1625

tag1627

furbelow1701

tuck1709

flounce1711

pipe1841

skirt1848

ruche1855

pouch1897

panel1901

stag1902

create1908

pin-fit1926

ease1932

pre-board1940

post-board1963

1897 Daily News 6 July 8/4 The muslin is lightly pouched over the belt.

1905 P. Landon Opening of Tibet xvii. 337 The dress of both men and women is very similar; there is a single undergarment and one heavy native cloth robe..which both sexes pull in round the waist with a girdle—the men pouching it at the waist to form the only pocket that they use.

1986 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 17 Oct. v.16/1 Blouses and jackets were simple and shapely, with definite emphasis on pants and skirts that were side-draped, gathered, pouched and flounced in various ways.

2003 BusinessWorld (Nexis) 3 Nov. 26 A tie-dyed striped cloth that was gathered, pouched and tied for variations of the Grecian goddess look.

b. intransitive. Of an article of clothing, piece of fabric, etc.: to hang in a pouch-like form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > hang or sit in specific way

poughc1325

frouncec1400

poke?a1425

to hang by geometry1584

sag1592

bag1824

bustle1824

cascade1861

flare1899

pouch1901

1901 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Republican 17 Mar. 13/1 Corsage blouse, pouching a trifle all around the ceinture.

1902 Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 3/3 The bodice is cut..tightly fitting at the back and sides and below the waist, yet pouching over in the front.

1921 Times 17 Aug. One such [dress], made for a young girl, is of black crêpe georgette, with a straight, square corsage, pouching a little at the sides, over a heavy girdle.

1994 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Feb. a15 Trousers buckled at the knee and pouched at the waist. Some pant legs swooped like giant bells.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pouch
释义	pouchn. Brit. /paʊtʃ/, U.S. /paʊtʃ/ Forms: Middle English poche, Middle English pouuche, Middle English puche, Middle English pulche (transmission error), Middle English 1600s (1800s– English regional (northern)) pooch, Middle English–1600s pouche, Middle English–1600s powch, Middle English–1700s powche, Middle English– pouch, 1500s poych, 1500s pvche, 1500s–1600s (1800s English regional (Herefordshire)) poutch, 1600s puch; Scottish pre-1700 peuch, pre-1700 poiche, pre-1700 pouche, pre-1700 poutche, pre-1700 pouthe (transmission error), pre-1700 powtche, pre-1700 puitche, pre-1700 push, pre-1700 putch, pre-1700 putche, pre-1700 1700s puch, pre-1700 1700s–1800s poutch, pre-1700 1700s– pouch, 1700s– pootch, 1800s– pooch. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pouche, poche. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French (northern), Middle French pouche (French pouche (now regional: chiefly Normandy, also western)) small bag or sack in which things are kept or carried (1180 as puche ), bag or sack in general, e.g. for grain (beginning of the 14th cent.), variant of Old French, Middle French, French poche bag, sack (14th cent.), purse (14th cent. or earlier), small cavity in an organism which resembles a bag, of natural or pathological origin (1377 in an isolated attestation, subsequently from 1694), distensible sac used for food storage beneath the bills of some birds (1530 in Palsgrave), pocket in a garment (1573), baggy area of skin underneath a person's eye (1862 or earlier; usually in plural) < an unattested Old Dutch form pokka (see poke n.¹). Compare post-classical Latin pocha* , pochia , pucha , puchea , puchia bag, pouch (from 13th cent. in British sources), Old Occitan pocha pocket in a garment (14th cent. in an isolated attestation; Occitan pòcha ). Compare poke n.¹ and earlier pough n. Compare also pocket n.Apparently attested earlier as a surname, although it is unclear whether this reflects currency of the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: Gillebertus Poche (1184). With sense 2a(b) compare classical Latin marsūpium marsupium n.; this sense is apparently not paralleled in French until later (1764). With sense 5 compare earlier pouch v. 5. 1. a. A small bag or sack used esp. for carrying personal items; (spec.) a small bag for tobacco. Also: a (detachable) pocket worn outside a garment. Also figurative.With quot. a1325 cf. pig in a poke n. at pig n.¹ Phrases 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > small poucha1325 pautenerc1330 satchela1362 sachet1483 potewera1650 caba1833 baglet1885 baggie1934 a1325 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Cambr.) xxxvi, in Anglia (1881) 4 189 (MED) Wan man ȝevit þe a pig, opin þe powch. 1327 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 41 (MED) [A silken] pouch. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 11 A ioly popper baar he in his pouche [v.r. puche]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 411 Powche, marsupium. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 408 (MED) The graynes ripe..Putte in a poche [L. fiscella] of palme, and with the wrynge Let presse hem. a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 139 (MED) Galaunt, with thy daggar a-crosse, And thy hanggyng pouche vpon thy narse, Thow art ful abyl to stele a horse. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 557 A Pouche: a great bagge or sachell. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Empocher, to impouch, to put into a pouch or budget. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 88 By his side a Pouch he wore Replete with strange Hermetick Powder. 1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 234 Seven pictures of God the Father in form of a little old man in a blue and red coat with a pouch by his side. 1799 J. Smith Acct. Remarkable Occurr. 11 A pouch, which..contained tobacco, killegenico, or dry sumach leaves which they mix with their tobacco. 1823 T. Jefferson Let. 12 June in Writings (1984) 1474 The Indian Chief said he did not go to war for every petty injury by itself, but put it into his pouch, and when that was full, he then made war. 1861 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 3 119/1 The little Pouches..still continue to be worn, suspended from the waistband by a chain and hook, and sometimes by a cord. 1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 146 I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me, and smoked for some time, in silence. 1948 Glasgow Herald 6 Sept. 2/1 To his standard equipment of pipe, pouch, and cigarette case, he has now added a little tin box for dowts. 2003 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 5 Oct. b1 The local Indians retrieved stones that represented special memories and kept them in pouches. b. spec. A small bag in which money is carried; a purse. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [noun] pungeOE by-girdlec1000 purselOE almonerc1330 pouch1355 almonryc1450 penny purse1523 cherry-bag1539 money bag1562 bung1567 jan1610 penny pouch1650 coda1680 zone1692 spung1728 money purse1759 spleuchan1787 skin1795 sporran1817 fisc1820 moneybelt1833 poke1859 purse-belt1901 1355 in Cal. Fine Rolls (1921) VI. 438 [3] pouches [and 3 belts]. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 55 (MED) Ye presente God and his seyntes wytnes to youre wyckednes, consumynge othir mennys poochys to fulfill your pursys. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1349 The halle Was plated half a foote thikke Of gold..As fyn as ducat in Venyse, Of which to lite al my pouche is. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 289 (MED) A Powche, vbi A purse. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Pv These..dare I nat playnly towche For all these crosses and syluer in my powche. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor i. iii. 82 Teaster Ile haue in pouch When thou shalt want. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 158 Could Catechise a Money-Box, And prove all Powches Orthodox. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 417 But I press'd it on him, and made him accept it, and it was not much less worth than his Leather-pouch full of Spanish Gold. 1832 H. Martineau Ella of Garveloch i. 14 Out comes the pouch, as sure as I show myself to gather the rent. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xiii. 8 Know he boasts but a pouch of empty cobwebs. 1931 P. S. Buck Good Earth i. 9 He took from his girdle a small greasy pouch of grey cloth and counted the money in it. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Oct. b3 Some people were confident, carrying pouches of money or certified checks. c. A pocket sewn into a garment. Chiefly Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > pocket pocketc1450 pouch1539 pit1811 1539 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 253 For bukrem to be ane tulat and ane pouche to it [sc. a coat]. a1617 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 65 He had alwayes a New Testament in Englis in his poutche. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 87 For fear of spoiling their Caps..in the Rain, they will put 'em in their Pouches, and go Bare-Headed. a1726 D. Craufurd Poems (1798) 81 I'm grown up sae big a fallow, That Andrew Shirrefs an' his crutch, Could maist creep in o' my coat-pouch. 1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxvii. 64 From his pouch his sketch-book drew. 1887 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights III. dxxvii. 75 But the lad (forasmuch as he had placed it at the bottom of his breast-pocket and his other pouches being full of gems bulged outwards) could not reach it with his fingers to hand it over. 1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xix. 180 She saw 'im twa or three times put his hand in his pouch. 1901 Scotsman 12 Mar. 5/4 Standing about..‘wi' naething in his pouches but his hauns’. 1929 Peace's Orkney Almanac 138 I keep da bit o' breek here i' me pooch tae dicht my specs. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 166 He'd put him his Highland pride in his pouch and muttered All right. 1949 N. E. Jacob Mary of Delight v. 299 Ah've brought ma siller, a' Ah have i' the worrld; it's aboot seven pun' i' ma pooch. 2004 R. Shepherd & N. Harper Dash o Doric: One for Road 102 ‘Is that bottle the only consolation you have left in the world?’ ‘No,’ said the drunk. ‘I've anither een in ma pooch.’ 2013 @eirinntaylorx 10 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Never walkin we ma hands in ma pooch again. Just fell flat on my face walkin up the stairs. d. Firearms. A bag or case (formerly of leather, now usually of canvas or synthetic webbing) used for carrying gunpowder, shot, bullets, etc. Also in earlier use: a wooden cartridge box. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > cartridge-box or -pouch bandoleer1611 cartridge1627 pouch1627 vandaliroa1660 collar1672 patrontash1685 cartouche-box1697 cartridge-box1699 cartridge-case1769 salt-box1803 cartouche1807 patron1829 thimble-belt1901 stall1906 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 57 You must be carefull to cleare the decks with..fire-pots, poutches of powder. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 19 Their Bandaliers fill'd with Powder, and Shot in their Pooches. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 24 He brought a great Leather Pouch which held about a Pound and half of Powder,..and another with Shot. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 45 I delivered up both my Pistols in the same manner, as I had done my Scymiter, and then my Pouch of Powder and Bullets. 1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 209 A letter..complaining of certain pouches lately sent out from England for the use of the Portuguese troops. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 219/2 Pouch, a case of strong leather, lined with tin divisions, for the purpose of carrying a soldier's ammunition. 1896 C. G. D. Roberts Forge in Forest v. 64 ‘I don't,’ replied Marc, simply, as he handed me out a pouch of bullets and a pouch of slugs. 1947 Port Arthur (Texas) News 3 Aug. 5/5 He saw a man standing on the corner with a rifle, and there was a pouch of ammunition at his side. 1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 261 In my ammo pouch, against the sten magazines, I had stuffed the picture of Hanuman. 1997 Daily Record (Nexis) 5 Mar. 15 Detectives..found a silencer for the gun and a pouch of bullets hanging from the dashboard. e. = mail pouch n. at mail n.² Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > mail-bag letter baga1655 bag1702 postbag1706 mailbag1812 pouch1833 mail pouch1843 mail sack1869 1833 Niles' Reg. 44 337/2 The letter mail bag, or ‘Pouch’, was missed between New Brunswick (N.J.) and New York. 1879 Post Master General's Rep. in Parl. Papers 1878–9 (C. 2405) XXI. 197 The..number of pouches exchanged with these Travelling Post Offices..in 24 hours is now 1090. 1889 Cent. Mag. 38 606/2 At 3 o'clock a.m. the European mails closed, and the pouches put on board the Aller carried the usual copies for the foreign circulation. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Apr. 17/7 Three bandits..last night held up a United States mail truck here and robbed it of three pouches of registered mail. 1963 Western Kansas Press 22 Aug. 8/1 You can always tell them you're late and have to keep going to get your whole pouch of mail delivered. 1997 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 29 June 3 Men and women don't have to have skin like a mailman's pouch. f. = diplomatic bag at diplomatic adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > mail-bag > diplomatic bag bag1816 diplomatic bag1956 pouch1958 1958 L. Durrell Mountolive vi. 140 When the Syrians want to be clever, they don't use a diplomatic courier; they confide their pouch to a lady, the vice-consul's niece. 1968 ‘D. Torr’ Treason Line 163 I've been down here for the past hour checking the airgrams for the Washington pouch. 1994 Life (Nexis) Apr. 114 I'm a diplomatic courier and I've got pouches on the plane. I have to stay and get 'em out. 2. a. Anatomy and Zoology. An enclosed cavity or hollow structure in an animal body that resembles a bag or pocket; a sac; spec. †(a) the stomach of a fish (obsolete); (b) a cavity enclosed by a fold of tissue in which certain animals, esp. marsupial mammals, carry their young; a marsupium; (c) a distensible sac for food storage, as beneath the bill of some birds (e.g. pelicans and cormorants) and in the cheeks of some mammals (esp. rodents and certain monkeys).cheek-, Douglas's, gill, Rathke's pouch: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > stomach poucha1399 pokec1450 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > neck or throat > appendage or pouch on wattle1513 gill1596 rattles1611 gorget1703 pouch1774 parapatagium1887 palea1890 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > pouch or receptacle pouch1803 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > cheek-pouch cheek pouch1653 pouch1803 a1399 in S. Pegge Forme of Cury (1780) 47 Take the Powche and the Lyuour of haddok, codlyng, and hake and of ooþer fisshe, parboile hem, take hem and dyce hem small. c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 101 (MED) And þen take a pike..And slyt the pouuche..And whan þe sauce biginneth to boyle..wassh þe pike and cast him þere-in, and caste þe pouche and fey there-to. ?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. at Pouche Sethe the pouche as ye do of a pik and mynce it with the grave. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xix. 43 [The shark] is the most ravenous Fish knowne in the Sea... In the Puch of them hath beene found hatts, cappes, shooes, shirts, leggs and armes of men. 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 107 A Denomination might be best given to it, from that Particular, wherein 'tis most distinguished..which is that remarkable Pouch or Marsupium. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 197 This is a pouch, the entrance of which lies immediately under the tongue, and capable of holding near seven quarts of water. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. I. 47 The Barbary Ape has a face not much unlike that of a dog... The cheeks are furnished with pouches. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 299 Isopoda. The females carry their ova under the second and third segments of the body, in a pouch formed of approximated scales. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 435 The respiratory system consists of gill-pouches or sacs, seven on each side in the Lampreys. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xviii. 219 Baby kangaroos are very tiny, and after they get into the pouch they attach themselves to the mother's nipples and remain there. 1967 D. Morris Naked Ape (1969) i. 27 No food storage takes place except, in a very temporary way, in the bulging cheek pouches of certain monkeys. 1996 Time 28 Oct. 85/3 Pteranodon is thought to have scooped up its prey and stashed it in a pelican-like throat pouch. b. Botany. A bag-shaped structure in a plant; spec. (a) a short, rounded or bag-shaped seed vessel; a silicle (now rare); (b) a baglike cavity in the corolla of certain plants, esp. orchids. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] knop1398 seed vessel1562 pouch1577 bottle1609 uterus1682 pericarpium1691 vessel1691 pericarp1759 crust1776 1577 in B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husb. iv. f. 191^v It creepeth lowe by the ground,..with a seede inclosed in little powches, like a shepeheards purse. 1717 P. Blair Let. to Dr. Baynard 105 The manner of the opening of the Pouches and pouring out of the Seeds. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 48 Isatis. Pouch deciduous. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 9 The silicle or pouch is a shorter, broader pod [than the silique]. 1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised ii. 69 As soon as the disc is drawn out of the pouch the movement of depression commences. 1952 A. R. Clapham et al. Flora Brit. Isles 1306 Ophrys..pollinia 2, narrowed downwards into long caudicles which are attached basally to separate ± globose viscidia enclosed in the distinct rostellar pouches. 1987 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 18 361 Angelonia..is known to be visited by Centris species that insert their legs into these floral pouches to extract the oil film. c. Medicine. An abnormal or artificially created structure or space in the body that resembles a bag or pocket; an aneurysm, a cyst (now rare); a sac, a diverticulum. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > internal organs > [noun] > of specific shape or formation pocketa1450 cystis1543 vesike1577 vesicle1578 belly1594 ventricle1641 vesicula1705 pouch1712 cyst1721 sac1741 leaflet1826 calyx1828 node1892 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity pita1275 holec1300 cella1398 den1398 follicle?a1425 purse?a1425 pocketa1450 fossac1475 cystis1543 trench1565 conceptory1576 vesike1577 vesicle1578 vault1594 socket1601 bladderet1615 cistern1615 cavern1626 ventricle1641 bladder1661 antrum1684 conceptaculum1691 capsule1693 cellule1694 loculus1694 sinus1704 vesicula1705 vesica1706 fosse1710 pouch1712 cyst1721 air chamber1725 fossula1733 alveole1739 sac1741 sacculus1749 locule1751 compartment1772 air cell1774 fossule1803 umbilicus1811 conceptacle1819 cœlia1820 utricle1822 air sac1835 saccule1836 ampulla1845 vacuole1853 scrobicule1880 faveolus1882 1712 Bibliotheca Anatomica II. 423/1 The Dilatation of an Artery, which being distended and enlarg'd by little and little, forms a Bag or Pouch that is fill'd up with Arterial Blood. 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xiv. 200 These pouches are often large enough to admit the end of the finger, and contain occasionally small calculi. 1901 Lancet 18 May 1387 (title) A pharyngeal pouch of large size removed by operation. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. li. 1186/2 A Heidenhain pouch or vagally denervated pouch responds to humoral but not to parasympathetic stimuli. 1991 Lancet 25 May 1295/2 A 29-year-old woman who had a subtotal colectomy and ileostomy in 1988 for fulminant ulcerative colitis, subsequently had an ileoanal pouch constructed a year later. d. A baggy area of skin underneath a person's eye. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [noun] > at eyes epicanthus1833 bag1867 pouch1891 Mongolian fold1908 1891 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 21 Mar. His lips were parted and pale, and there were deep pouches under the eyes. 1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. vii. 128 The loose flesh of his face hung down under his cheeks and chin, like a hound's dew-laps, and he had great pouches under his eyes. a1953 E. O'Neill Hughie (1959) 8 His blue eyes have drooping lids and puffy pouches under them. 1997 Y. M. Murray Locas 78 Ladies with brown blotches on their skin and pouches under their eyes. †3. The name of a game. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others sitisota1400 papsea1450 half-bowl1477 pluck at the crow1523 white and black1555 running game1581 blow-pointa1586 hot cocklesa1586 one penny1585 cockelty bread1595 pouch1600 venter-point1600 hinch-pinch1603 hardhead1606 poor and rich1621 rowland-hoe1622 hubbub1634 handicap?a1653 owl1653 ostomachy1656 prelledsa1660 quarter-spellsa1660 yert-point1659 bob-her1702 score1710 parson has lost his cloak1712 drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754 French Fox1759 goal1765 warpling o' the green1768 start1788 kiss-in-the-ring1801 steal-clothes1809 steal-coat1816 petits paquets1821 bocce1828 graces1831 Jack-in-the-box1836 hot hand1849 sparrow-mumbling1852 Aunt Sally1858 gossip1880 Tambaroora1882 spoof1884 fishpond1892 nim1901 diabolo1906 Kim's game1908 beaver1910 treasure-hunt1913 roll-down1915 rock scissors paper1927 scissors cut paper1927 scissors game1927 the dozens1928 toad in the hole1930 game1932 scissors paper stone1932 Roshambo1936 Marco Polo1938 scavenger hunt1940 skish1940 rock paper scissors1947 to play chicken1949 sounding1962 joning1970 arcade game1978 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will 2048 Thou and I will play at poutch, to morrow morning for a breakfast. 4. Nautical. A small bulkhead or partition in a ship's hold, for stowing corn or other loose cargo. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > division made by bulkheads or partitions pouch1625 1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (MS BL Add. 21571) f. 105 Pouches, are small Bulk-heads made in howld either thwart ships or longst Ships. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 33 The Ballast wil sometimes shoot, that is, run from one side to another, and so will Corne and Salt, if you make not Pouches or Bulk-heads. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Powches, so the Seamen call small Bulkheads made in the Hold of a Ship, to stow Corn, Goods, or the like, that it do not shoot from one side to the other. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 540 Pouches, wooden bulk-heads across the hold of cargo vessels, to prevent grain or light shingle from shifting. 1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 665 Pouches, an old name for the small bulkheads, often temporary, erected in the holds of a cargo ship when a shifting cargo, such as corn or coal, is taken on board, their purpose being to prevent movement of the cargo when the ship rolls or pitches. 1985 P. Clissold Ansted's Dict. Sea Terms (ed. 3) 219 Pouches, in vessels which are laden in bulk, strong bulkheads (called pouches) are placed across the hold to prevent the cargo from shifting. 5. colloquial. A present of money; a tip. Cf. pouch v. 5. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift of money largessea1325 gratuity1540 behoof1596 benevolency1698 pouch1880 handout1882 handshake1958 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > tip bountethc1440 gratitude1535 vail1605 gratulance1608 gratilitya1616 spill1675 baksheesh1686 simony1707 perquisite1721 tip1755 grace1769 buckshee1773 mancia1798 bonus1834 pouch1880 gravy1910 étrenne1928 sling1948 small1962 toke1971 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. iii. 25 Your grandfather..pouched me at Harrow, and it was the largest pouch I ever had. 1909 Daily Chron. 23 July 3/2 Filled with the ‘pouch’ from generous relatives the boys went off with a volley of peashooters, and the old Etonians—fathers—admired. Compounds C1. a. General attributive and similative. pouch-belt n. ΚΠ 1754 Regimental Standing Orders in Syst. Camp-discipline (1757) 82 When the Men lay down on the Guard Bed, they shall always turn their Pouch Belts wrong-side outwards, by which they will be preserved much cleaner. 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 167 Cavalry uniform, a pouch belt, and a sabre-tache. 1974 ‘B. Mather’ White Dacoit v. 50 Rankine, his escort, had arrived, dressed..with..pouchbelt and sword. † pouch-lid n. Obsolete ΚΠ ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iii. sig. Liij As ye wolde fasten a nedle with threde on your bosome or pouche lid. 1835 J. D. Carrick Laird of Logan 162 The common gauge o' the fur was my pouch-lids. 1891 R. Ford Thistledown 296 Better at padding pouch-lids than handlin' the goose. pouch-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object camois1664 pouch-likea1676 scaphoidal1681 spoon-likea1686 umbilicated1693 umbilicate1698 saucer-shaped1753 boat-shaped1760 pouchy1786 cupped1796 urn-shaped1796 naviform1816 spoon-shaped1817 urn-like1826 vase-shaped1832 bag-shaped1836 basin-like1836 trough-like1839 urceiform1840 vase-like1840 saucered1847 bag-like1849 sac-like1849 pouch-shaped1854 basin-shaped1859 trough-shaped1871 bucketed1886 spooned1890 1854 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide 188/2 These eggs, which are very numerous, 400 or 500 being sometimes placed on a single horse, are somewhat pouch-shaped, and chagreened with transverse and longitude striae. 1938 Econ. Geogr. 14 242/1 St. John's.., lying on a well-protected, pouch-shaped coastal indentation was early used as a fishing base in the days when settlement was prohibited. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 41 This superb plant for the rockery, forming cushiony masses of foliage and bearing in summer pouch-shaped flowers. b. In the sense ‘having a pouch-like or baggy shape’. pouch shirt n. ΚΠ 1898 St. James's Gaz. 12 Jan. 12/1 The pouch shirt is the last new make. 1991 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 11 Feb. Casual pebble-knit sweaters, jersey toppers, pouch shirts and pull-on pants and shorts by Merona, at Target Stores. pouch waist n. ΚΠ 1895 Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 7 Mar. The pouch-waist is the ugly name of an ugly fashion, but one which just now is the rage. It is to have the front of the waist hang over the skirt just in the front line, and the most elegant gowns are made in this way. 1902 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 4 Sept. 5/2 The bride-to-be..might get herself a coat of velvet and put it with long skirts and with a pouch waist, open all the way to the belt to show the waist of the gown. C2. † pouch-bone n. Zoology Obsolete rare = marsupial bone n. at marsupial adj. and n. Compounds 1a.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pouch-bone, a marsupial bone; one of the ossa marsupialia of marsupials and monotremes. pouch-gill n. [after scientific Latin Marsipobranchii (see marsipobranch n. and adj.)] Zoology (a) rare the pouch-like gill of agnathan fishes (lampreys and hagfishes), which opens to the surface through a pore rather than a slit; †(b) rare a fish having such gills, a marsipobranch (obsolete).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1887 Manitoba Daily Free Press 7 Mar. This specimen of the Marsipobranchii or pouch gill family has some peculiar features, and should be sent to Ottawa or Washington for a critical examination. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pouch-gill, 1. One of the Marsipobranchii; a lamprey or hag, having the gills in a pouch. 2. The so-called basket of the marsipobranchiates. 1944 Angry Penguins Autumn 34 The lamprey, eel-like pseudo-fish with sucker mouth, pouch gills, and seven spiracles on each side.., slithers insidiously to safety. † pouch-gilled adj. [after marsipobranch adj.] Zoology Obsolete rare having pouch-like gills, as characteristic of lampreys and hagfishes; = marsipobranch adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [adjective] > having specific type of gills holobranchious1854 marsipobranch1874 marsipobranchiate1878 holobranchiate1885 pouch-gilled1885 purse-gilled1890 1885 W. K. Parker On Mammalian Descent ii. 45 In those pouch-gilled (marsipobranch) types..these parts are all separate, neat, finished tracts of cartilage. pouch-hook n. U.S. (now rare) a hook on which a mailbag is hung. ΚΠ 1907 N.E.D. at Pouch Pouch-hook. 1914 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 15 Sept. 5/4 Mr. James F. Pryor, mail clerk at the postoffice is suffering from injuries received when he ran a sharp mail pouch hook into his arm. 1950 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 21 Mar. 9/4 The mail pouch hook had missed a mailbag and contacted the water tower cable, causing it to whip around and hit Donald in the head.] pouch-mouse n. rare (a) a marsupial mouse (cf. pouched mouse n. at pouched adj. Compounds 2); †(b) a pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides, of south-western Canada and the western U.S. (obsolete). ΚΠ 1871 St. Pauls July 322 Hamilton presented me with a charming little grey quadruped with yellow feet, of about the size of a guinea-pig. It is known classically as the Antechinus flavipes, but goes popularly by the name of the yellow-footed pouch mouse. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pouch-mouse, one of the smaller pocket-gophers, Thomomys talpoides. 1981 Chromosoma 83 131 Gel analysis of KpnI digests of DNA from mouse, calf, horse, deer (muntjack) and a marsupial (flat-tailed pouch-mouse) showed that the KpnI-A-D segments characteristic of primate DNAs were absent in these mammals. pouch pocket n. originally U.S. a large external pocket resembling or likened to a pouch. ΚΠ 1892 Chicago Tribune 14 Aug. 4/4 The quaint little pouch pockets swinging from the girdle which went with our grandmothers' frocks... Let's have a renaissance of these chatelaine pockets. 1939 Times 22 May 20/3 The Royal Army Service Corps..uniform..comprises khaki blouse and trousers with pouch pockets for iron rations and field dressings. 2002 ‘H. Hill’ Flight from Deathrow xxv. 155 I..reached for the Daily Mirror that was tucked into the leather pouch-pocket on the back of the seat in front of me. † pouch-toad n. Obsolete rare = marsupial frog n. at marsupial adj. and n. Compounds 1b(b).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pouch-toad, a toad of the genus Nototrema,..which hatches its eggs and carries its tadpoles in a hole in its back. Derivatives ˈpouch-like adj. resembling a pouch. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > like specific object camois1664 pouch-likea1676 scaphoidal1681 spoon-likea1686 umbilicated1693 umbilicate1698 saucer-shaped1753 boat-shaped1760 pouchy1786 cupped1796 urn-shaped1796 naviform1816 spoon-shaped1817 urn-like1826 vase-shaped1832 bag-shaped1836 basin-like1836 trough-like1839 urceiform1840 vase-like1840 saucered1847 bag-like1849 sac-like1849 pouch-shaped1854 basin-shaped1859 trough-shaped1871 bucketed1886 spooned1890 a1676 J. Cooke Mellificium chirurgiæ 390 Next lies the Cawl, a Membrane thin, fat, double, disjoyned in some places, stretcht to the Navel, to the Groins preternaturally, also Womb, &c... Its rise is from the Mesentery, and is Pouch-like. 1808 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXVII. 1875 Fruitstalks from little oblong, hairy, black, lateral, pouch-like sheaths, very remarkable for being pendulous from the branch. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 572/2 Two prolongations..of a pouch-like form. 1895 S. S. Buckman in Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 374 The pouchlike cheeks of a baby. 1958 Gardener's Golden Treasury 83 Rose purple, lip curious, somewhat pouch-like with a tuft of golden hair in the throat. 2001 Nat. New Eng. May 59/1 To jet through the water, each octopus will draw water into its pouch-like mantle until it swells like a balloon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pouchv. Brit. /paʊtʃ/, U.S. /paʊtʃ/ Forms: see pouch n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pouch n. Etymology: < pouch n. Compare French pocher to put in a bag (1660: see poach v.²). 1. a. transitive. To put into or enclose in a pouch; to put into one's pocket. Also in extended use: to take possession of, to ‘bag’. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into a pocket, purse, or pouch pursea1400 imbursec1530 poucha1566 pocket1588 impouch1611 budget1618 impocket1728 fob1818 trouser1865 the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate ownOE rimec1275 takec1300 appropre1366 to keep, take to or for one's own storec1385 to get awayc1480 proper1496 apprehenda1522 impropry1526 impropriate1567 carve1578 forestall1581 appropriate1583 propriate1587 pocket1597 impatronize1611 propertya1616 asself1632 appropriatea1634 swallow1637 to swallow up1654 sink1699 poucha1774 spheterize1779 sack1807 fob1818 to look back to1822 mop1861 annex1865 a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Civ Cha [= I've] poucht them vp all ready, they are sure in hold. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. ix. 38 Come bring your Saint, pouch'd in his leather Shrine. 1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 12 He had already pouched the half ring. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) ii. 170 They pouch the gowd, nor fash the town For weights an' scales to weigh them. 1832 H. Martineau Ella of Garveloch iii. 38 He twisted their necks..and pouched them in his plaid. 1840 F. Trollope Widow Married I. ii. 39 A pretty sum you must have pouched last night. 1890 Sci. Amer. 25 Jan. 55/3 They [sc. letters] have next to be ‘pouched’... The packages of letters are thrown dexterously into the proper compartments. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xii. 129 It was a cheque..made out to the order of R. Little. ‘What's that for?’ ‘Expenses,’ said Bingo, pouching it. 1995 Snooker Scene May 27/1 Rod Lawler pouched his fifth first prize from the monthly pro-ams at club Snooker. †b. transitive. figurative. To put up with. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > endure patiently [verb (transitive)] > bear with or tolerate forbearc897 tholec950 bearOE abidec1300 bidea1325 takec1330 suffer1340 wielda1375 to have patience with (also in, toward)c1384 supportc1384 to sit with ——c1400 sustainc1400 thulgec1400 acceptc1405 to away with1528 brook1530 well away1533 to bear with —1538 digest1553 to comport with1565 stand1567 purse?1571 to put up1573 well away1579 comport1588 fadge1592 abrook1594 to come away1594 to take up with1609 swallow1611 embracea1616 to pack up1624 concocta1627 to set down bya1630 to take with ——1632 tolerate1646 brook1658 stomach1677 pouch1819 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iii. 85 I will pouch up no such affront before my parishioners. c. transitive. Cricket. To catch (the ball); to perform (a catch); to dismiss (a batter) by catching the ball. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > field [verb (transitive)] > catch to catch out1712 hold1752 catch1789 take1836 pouch1910 1910 A. A. Milne Day's Play 114 I heard Slip call ‘Mine’ and he pouched the ball. 1963 Times 13 June 13/3 A series of pulls which ended with a catch at the wicket would appear in this form: ‘After several cow-shots into the Great Beyond, Basher was neatly pouched by the timber-watcher.’ 1983 Daily Tel. 3 Sept. 12 A high catch to a fielder can be ‘down his throat’ and—if it is caught—safely ‘pouched’. 2004 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 20 July Captain Brian Lara pouched a comfortable catch at first slip. 2. transitive. Chiefly of fish and certain birds: to take (something) into the stomach, to swallow; (also) to take into a pouch in the mouth or gullet. Also figurative. Cf. pouch n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [verb (transitive)] > swallow poucha1643 the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > swallow pouch1775 a1643 W. Cartwright Poems in Comedies (1651) sig. P6^v Sir John did not nibble, but pouch'd the deceit. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vii. 154 The Pike..will have line enough to go to his hold and powch the bait. View more context for this quotation 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. i. 364 The common heron hath..a long neck..to reach prey, a wide extensive throat to pouch it. 1775 G. White in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 267 Swifts when..shot..discover a little lump of insects in their mouths, which they pouch and hold under their tongue. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 13 First allowing the fish, by a little slackening the line a small time to pouch the bait. 1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 164 They'll..leave the good..ait-meal bannocks to..be pouched by them that draff an' bran wad better hae mensed! 1892 E. Arnold Potiphar's Wife 96 That purple-winged hen-starling..Flies with a fat grub to her nested darling, Nor dreams to pouch it! 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 702/1 The pike..declined to pouch the unsavoury morsel, and spat it out. 1948 Amer. Midland Naturalist 39 537 On two occasions squirrels..were seen to pause and eat small quantities which they had pouched. 1990 Ecology 71 2341/1 It might be that as [a kangaroo rat's] cheek pouches are filled increasingly more time is required to pouch individual seeds. 3. transitive. To purse (the lips); to push (the mouth) out; to pout. Frequently with out. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > express ill humour [verb (transitive)] > pout (the lips) pouch1647 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (intransitive)] > lips poutc1484 pouch1647 blub1684 unpurse1838 moue1938 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs xiv. 266 If this make thee frown, And pouch thy lips out. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. x. 53 He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up, and swelled; but answered me not. 1867 G. W. Harris Sut Lovingood 213 He cum sighin an' groanin wif his mouf pouched out, up tu the coffin wifout seein Seize in the corner at all. 1999 G. Bear Darwin's Radio xxi. 103 She made an approving and speculative face, pouching out her lips, and said, ‘It's damned scary’. 4. intransitive. To form a pouch or pouch-like cavity. See sense 6b, and cf. pouching n. ΚΠ 1683 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 364 On one side was a large passage into the second [ventricle or stomach]; which pouching out had its two ends winding like a horn. 1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) B. 187 92 The polypal wall pouched itself upwards in a ring of radial folds. 1941 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 60 20 The tube where it arises from the body of the follicle is pouched out right and left. 1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 20 The pocket pouched under the weight, but when he closed his jacket, there was no bulge on the outside. 1987 J. C. McElroy Bone Flames 34 You've learned to clean your plate your stomach pouching like the mating wattle of some featherless bird. 5. transitive. colloquial. To give a person (money) as a gift; to tip or bribe (a person). Cf. pouch n. 1b, 5. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > supply (person) with money money1528 pouch1810 fund1900 the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > give money > as a gift pouch1810 1810 P. B. Shelley Let. 1. Apr. in Compl. Wks. (1926) VIII. 5 Pouch the reviewers—£10 will be sufficient I should suppose, and that I can with the greatest ease repay when we meet at Passion week. a1833 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1845) 66 Charles Townley, Esq...pouched me half a guinea to purchase paper and chalk. 1864 Eton School Days i. 4 ‘Did your governor “pouch” you?’ asked Purefoy, as they were going towards the Station. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. iii. 25 Your grandfather..pouched me at Harrow, and it was the largest pouch I ever had. 6. a. transitive. To make or arrange (an article of clothing, piece of fabric, etc.) so as to hang loosely in a pouch-like form. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > other fur13.. buttonc1380 lashc1440 pointa1470 set1530 tuft1535 vent1547 ruff1548 spangle1548 string1548 superbody1552 to pull out1553 quilt1555 flute1578 seam1590 seed1604 overtrim1622 ruffle1625 tag1627 furbelow1701 tuck1709 flounce1711 pipe1841 skirt1848 ruche1855 pouch1897 panel1901 stag1902 create1908 pin-fit1926 ease1932 pre-board1940 post-board1963 1897 Daily News 6 July 8/4 The muslin is lightly pouched over the belt. 1905 P. Landon Opening of Tibet xvii. 337 The dress of both men and women is very similar; there is a single undergarment and one heavy native cloth robe..which both sexes pull in round the waist with a girdle—the men pouching it at the waist to form the only pocket that they use. 1986 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 17 Oct. v.16/1 Blouses and jackets were simple and shapely, with definite emphasis on pants and skirts that were side-draped, gathered, pouched and flounced in various ways. 2003 BusinessWorld (Nexis) 3 Nov. 26 A tie-dyed striped cloth that was gathered, pouched and tied for variations of the Grecian goddess look. b. intransitive. Of an article of clothing, piece of fabric, etc.: to hang in a pouch-like form. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > hang or sit in specific way poughc1325 frouncec1400 poke?a1425 to hang by geometry1584 sag1592 bag1824 bustle1824 cascade1861 flare1899 pouch1901 1901 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Republican 17 Mar. 13/1 Corsage blouse, pouching a trifle all around the ceinture. 1902 Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 3/3 The bodice is cut..tightly fitting at the back and sides and below the waist, yet pouching over in the front. 1921 Times 17 Aug. One such [dress], made for a young girl, is of black crêpe georgette, with a straight, square corsage, pouching a little at the sides, over a heavy girdle. 1994 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Feb. a15 Trousers buckled at the knee and pouched at the waist. Some pant legs swooped like giant bells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1325v.a1566
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