Purse vs. Pouch

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Pursenoun

A small bag for carrying money.

Pursenoun

(US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)

Pursenoun

A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.

Pursenoun

(historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.

Purseverb

(transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.

Purseverb

To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.

Purseverb

To put into a purse.

Purseverb

To steal purses; to rob.

Pursenoun

A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.

Pursenoun

Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.

Pursenoun

A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.

Pursenoun

A specific sum of money

Purseverb

To put into a purse.

Purseverb

To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.

Purseverb

To steal purses; to rob.

Pursenoun

a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);

Pursenoun

a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse;

Pursenoun

a small bag for carrying money

Pursenoun

a sum of money offered as a prize;

Purseverb

contract one's lips into a rounded shape

Purseverb

gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker;

Pouchnoun

A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

Pouchnoun

A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.

Pouchnoun

Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.

Pouchnoun

A protuberant belly; a paunch.

Pouchnoun

A cyst or sac containing fluid.

Pouchnoun

(botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

Pouchnoun

A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

Pouchverb

(transitive) To enclose within a pouch.

Pouchverb

(transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

Pouchverb

(of fowls and fish) To swallow.

Pouchverb

(obsolete) To pout.

Pouchverb

(obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

Pouchnoun

A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

Pouchnoun

That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch

Pouchverb

To put or take into a pouch.

Pouchverb

To swallow; - said of fowls.

Pouchverb

To pout.

Pouchverb

To pocket; to put up with.

Pouchnoun

a small or medium size bag-like container for holding or carrying things

Pouchnoun

an enclosed space;

Pouchnoun

(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)

Pouchverb

put into a small bag

Pouchverb

send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels

Pouchverb

swell or protrude outwards;

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