POUCH
What does "POUCH" mean?
A small bag or pocket-like container, or a saclike fold of skin in an animal.
Meanings
- A small flexible bag, often closed by a drawstring or flap. He kept his tobacco in a leather pouch.
- A pocket-like sac of skin in an animal, such as that in which a marsupial carries its young or a hamster stores food. The baby kangaroo, or joey, hides in its mother's pouch.
- To form into or carry in a pouch; to put away in a bag. The hamster pouched the seeds and scurried off.
Did you know?
- A newborn kangaroo is only about 2 centimetres long - jellybean-sized and blind - yet it crawls unaided up into its mother's pouch, where it finishes developing for months.
Word origin
From Old North French 'pouche', a variant of Old French 'poche' (bag, pocket), of Germanic origin; the same root gives English 'poke' (a bag) and 'pocket'.
Remember it
POUCH = POcket + poUCH; a soft bag you pouch things into - and it shares roots with 'pocket' and 'poke'.
A little poem
A jellybean climbs-
blind, into the warm dark fold,
and finishes there.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why is a kangaroo never short of storage? It always keeps a little something in the pouch - which, unlike a pocket, can wave back.
What it teaches
The smallest, most helpless beginnings often need only a warm pocket of safety to grow into something that bounds.
Quick facts
What does POUCH mean?
A small bag or pocket-like container, or a saclike fold of skin in an animal.
Is POUCH a valid word?
Yes — POUCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is POUCH?
POUCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does POUCH come from?
From Old North French 'pouche', a variant of Old French 'poche' (bag, pocket), of Germanic origin; the same root gives English 'poke' (a bag) and 'pocket'.
What can POUCH teach us?
The smallest, most helpless beginnings often need only a warm pocket of safety to grow into something that bounds.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.