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Pouch vs Nubbin - What's the difference?

pouch | nubbin |

As nouns the difference between pouch and nubbin

is that pouch is a small bag usually closed with a drawstring while nubbin is a stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.

As a verb pouch

is to enclose within a pouch.

pouch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  • A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  • Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  • (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  • A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    See also

    * bag * pocket * sack

    Verb

  • To enclose within a pouch.
  • To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  • (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
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  • (obsolete) To pout.
    • (Ainsworth)
  • (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
    (Webster 1913)

    nubbin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
  • (informal) A small protuberance, bud, bump, knob, or the like.
    • As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the button hole.
  • (slang) clitoris

    • References

    * * * * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.