Noun: pouch
| Singular | pouch |
| Plural | pouches |
Sample Sentences
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[…]form a large Pouch or Cyst [1747, Samuel Sharp, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery:]
Nouns inflected like pouch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *puhô
3. Frankish *pokōbor.
4. Old French puche
5. Old Northern French pouchebor.
6. Middle English pouche
7. English pouch
8. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
pouche', French Nouns '
poche', Old English Nouns '
pohha'.