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Scrip vs Pouch - What's the difference?

scrip | pouch |

As nouns the difference between scrip and pouch

is that scrip is a small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc while pouch is a small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

As a verb pouch is

to enclose within a pouch.

scrip

English

(wikipedia scrip)

Etymology 1

An aphetism of (etyl) , a variant of escharpe, from (etyl) skreppa.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
    • Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
  • * 1964 , Nothing Like the Sun
    • A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —
  • Small change.
  • * 1899, , The Brick Moon and Other Stories] , (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999, Etext #1633
    • In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip " was in the sixties the name for small change.

    Etymology 2

    Probably from a conflation of (m) and (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scrap of paper.
  • A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.
  • A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the .
  • Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit.

    • Etymology 3

    Abbreviation of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A share certificate.

    • Etymology 4

    Abbreviation of (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, British) A medical prescription.

    • Anagrams

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    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)