pouch
Speech parts
1. pouch - Noun
2. pouch - Verb
Meaning
A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
To put or take into a pouch.
To swallow; -- said of fowls.
To pout.
To pocket; to put up with.
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Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.
How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach.
The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of Hell.
Ya mout does run like a duck pouch.