English Explanatory Dictionary

Pough

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. A bag.
  2. A goitre.

Word forms

Pough Poughs pouge powghie poghe

Etymology

From Middle English pogh, powhe, from Old English pohha, a variant of pocca (“poke, bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokō, from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to blow, swell”).

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