How do you pronounce pough?

The recorded pronunciation is /pˈaʊ/.

Where does pough come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

pough

/pˈaʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English

Syllables: pough
IPA: /pˈaʊ/

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Meaning

name

A surname.

noun

A bag.

Obsolete

noun

A goitre.

Obsolete

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”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: pogh, pohha, *pokō, *puhô, *bew-

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

Poughs (plural) pouge (alternative) powghie (alternative) poghe (alternative)

Homonyms

pao powe

Rhymes With

how now allow wow bow thou cow dow mao vow brow howe

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