▪ I. † pough, n. Obs.
Forms: 1 pohha, poha, pohcha, (pocca), 4 powȝe, powhe, (pouge), pouhȝ, 5–7 poghe, 6 powghe, 7 pough.
[OE. pohha, app. with no exact equivalent in the cognate langs., but from the OTeut. ablaut stem puh(h)-, pug(g)- to swell up, blow, whence also EFris. puche a boil, MLG. puchen, puggen, LG. puchen, pughen, MDu., MFlem. pochen, poghen, Du. (G.) pochen to boast; also MDu. pōghen, Du. pogen to endeavour, lit. to pant from exertion. Radical connexion with pock, poke n.1 is uncertain.]
A bag.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xlv. 342 He leᵹeð hie on ðyrelne pohhan [v.r. pohchan]. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark vi. 8 Ne poha [Rushw. pohha] vel posa ne hlaf. Ibid. Luke ix. 3 Ne pocca [Rushw. pohha] vel posa. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. viii. 178 A powhe [1377 B. vii. 191 poke, v.r. pouhȝ] ful of pardoun. 1388 Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 276, I wolde ful were here pouge [? pouȝe] tanti dulcedine roris! c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 618 Þei may trussen her part in a terre powȝe! 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxix. (Tollem. MS.), A fische..when he knoweþ þat he is entrid and is within þe fischeres pouge. c 1450 Douce MS. 52 lf. 27 b, When me profereth þe pigge opon þe poghe. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 336/1 A Sack, or Pough of Corn tyed up... It is termed a Sack when it contains about 4, 5, or 6 Measures of Corn; a Pough when it holds 1, 2, or 3. |
b. A swelling of the skin.
| 1601 Holland Pliny II. xxxvii. iii. 706 The people..are subject to poghes under their throat... [Margin] This disease is called Bronchocele or Hernia gutturis. |
▪ II. † pough, v. Obs. rare.
Forms: 1 (pa. pple.) pohhed, 4 powȝe, pouhe, pouwe, powe, 5 powȝ.
[f. prec. n.]
intr. Of a garment: To hang loose, bag out.
| c 1100 Rule St. Benet (Schröer 1885) 136 (MS. F.) Hy..habbaþ side earmellan and pohhede hosa. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6394 Þe tailors corue so moni peces uor is robe ne ssolde powȝe [v.rr. powe, pouwe, pouhe, powȝ, poke]. |
▪ III. pough
obs. form of poh int.