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pough

pough noun: a bag.

Noun

pough (plural poughs)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Pough

Pough (plural Poughs)

  1. A surname.

Forms of pough

Noun
pluralpoughs
alternative formpouge
alternative formpowghie
alternative formpoghe
Proper noun
pluralPoughs

Origin of pough

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”).

Questions about pough

What does pough mean?
Pough means a bag.
What part of speech is pough?
Pough can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pough?
The plural of pough is poughs.

Words near pough in the dictionary

  1. poufing
  2. poufs
  3. poufter
  4. poufters
  5. poufy
  6. pough
  7. poughite
  8. Poughkeepsian
  9. Poughkeepsians
  10. Poughkeepsie
  11. Poughs

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