Meaning

5 senses

  1. (transitive)To enclose within a pouch.

    The beggar pouched the coin.

  2. (transitive)To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

    We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.

  3. To swallow.

  4. (obsolete, rare)To pout.

  5. (obsolete)To pocket; to put up with.

    put into a small bag

Examples

17 sentences

  1. Female kangaroos carry their young in their pouches.

    ruСамки кенгуру носят своих детёнышей в сумке. — marafon

    deKänguruhweibchen tragen ihre Jungen in ihrem Beutel. — Waldelfe

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  2. A female kangaroo carries its young in its pouch.

    ruСамка кенгуру носит своих детёнышей в сумке. — marafon

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  3. A female kangaroo carries her young in her pouch.

    ruСамка кенгуру носит своих детёнышей в сумке. — marafon

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  4. Santiago put the money in his pouch.

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  5. Marsupials have pouches to carry their young in.

    deBeuteltiere haben Beutel, um ihre Jungen darin zu tragen. — Yorwba

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Origin

From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old Fren

From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.

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Forms

pouches, pouching, pouched, pouched
Base formpouch · to pouch
3rd person singularpouches
Present participlepouching
Past simplepouched
Past participlepouched

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypouch
he, she, itpouches

Past simpleLesson

all personspouched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pouched
he, she, ithas pouched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pouch

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
potteryB1pottypoultrypounceC1poundB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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