pouch

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pouch/paʊtʃ/

▶noun

• 1 a small flexible bag.

  ■ a lockable bag for mail or dispatches.

• 2 a pocket-like abdominal receptacle in which marsupials carry their young during lactation.

• 3 any of a number of similar animal structures, such as those in the cheeks of rodents.

  ■ a baggy area of skin underneath a person's eye.

▶verb

• 1 put into a pouch.

• 2 informal take possession of.

• 3 Cricket catch (the ball).

• 4 make or form into a pouch.

– derivatives
pouched adjective,
pouchy adjective.

– origin ME: from Old North. Fr. pouche, var. of OFr. poche ‘bag’.