pough

English

Alternative forms

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

Noun

pough (plural poughs)

  1. (obsolete) A bag.
  2. (obsolete, anatomy, rare) A goitre.
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