pouch

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  2. An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  3. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  4. A protuberant belly; a paunch. dated,derogatory,slang
  5. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
    — […]form a large Pouch or Cyst
  6. A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  7. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
动词 v.
  1. To enclose within a pouch. transitive
    — The beggar pouched the coin.
  2. To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. transitive
    — We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.
  3. To swallow.
    — And, to name no more, the common Heron hath its most remarkable Parts adapted to this Service; long Legs for wading; and a long Neck answerable thereto to reach Prey; a wide, extensive Throat to pouch it; long Toes, with strong hooked Talons […]
  4. To pout. obsolete,rare
    — He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up and swelled; but answered me not.
  5. To pocket; to put up with. obsolete
    — And for the value of the gowden piece , it shall never be said I pouched her siller

词形变化

pouches plural pouches present,singular,third-person pouching participle,present pouched participle,past pouched past

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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