tobacco pouch
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4.2
- noun
- /təˈbækoʊ paʊtʃ/
:
estuche para tabaco
- Then he took out his tobacco pouch, slit the lining, and slipped the packet inside.
- took out his tobacco pouch
Examples
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Mr. Walker lighted his pipe and put away his tobacco pouch.
Fiction book (1999) -
Kimball put his clubs down and took out his tobacco pouch to light his pipe.
Fiction book (1992) -
Her hand goes in its pocket and pulls out his tobacco pouch.
Fiction book (1994) -
He took out his pipe and tobacco pouch.
Fiction book (2001) -
Here's your tobacco pouch.
Fiction book (2002) -
He lengthened his stride to its normal span and quickly moved ahead of them, pulling his pipe and tobacco pouch from a coat pocket.
Fiction book (1991) -
She drew a tobacco pouch from an apron pocket and refilled the pipe, tamping the tobacco down hard with a callused thumb.
Fiction book (1997) -
Roy took his leather tobacco pouch from his back pocket, unwrapped the thin leather thongs, and spilled tobacco on the earth around the coiled stick for a blessing, an offering.
Fiction book (1993) -
He reached into his backpack and pulled out a tobacco pouch to fill his pipe.
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Sitting by the fire, he opened his tobacco pouch to share with his friends.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small bag for carrying tobacco' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tobacco' (dried leaves for smoking) with 'pouch' (a small bag). This noun+noun compound follows a common compositional pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Tobacco pouch comes from the small leather bags smokers used to carry tobacco in a pouch. That's why it means 'a small bag used for carrying pipe tobacco'.