Pough

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A bag. obsolete
  2. 2
    A goitre. obsolete, rare

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 *pukô (“bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to blow, swell”).

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