Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To enclose within a pouch. · To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. · To swallow. · To pout.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA small bag usually closed with a drawstring. · An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young. · Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch. · A protuberant belly; a paunch.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French puche Old Northern French pouchebor. Middle English pouche English pouch 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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