Pouch
Middle English (as a noun): from Old Northern French pouche, variant of Old French poche ‘bag’. Compare with poke2.
wiktionary
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). Compare pocket, poke.
etymonline
pouch (n.)
early 14c. (late 12c. as a surname), pouche, "bag worn on one's person for carrying things," especially (late 14c.) "small bag in which money is carried," from Anglo-French puche, Old North French pouche (13c.), Old French poche "purse, poke," all from a Germanic source (compare Old English pocca "bag;" see poke (n.1)). Extended to sac-like cavities in animal bodies from c. 1400.
pouch (v.)
1560s, "put in a pouch;" 1670s, "to form a pouch, swell or protrude," from pouch (n.). Related: Pouched; pouching.
