Middle English Dictionary Entry
pough(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pough(e n. Also pouȝe, pouge, pouhȝ, pouhe, pouha & pogh(e, pogha, paugh, & (in early place name only) poch(e. |
| Etymology | From OE pohha. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A sack, pouch; also in proverb; (b) a kind of fish trap; (c) ?an intestine; (d) in surname and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.68].
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)8.178 : A powhe [B vr. pouhȝ] ful of pardoun þer..bote Dowel þe helpe, I nolde ȝeue for þi pardoun one pye hele.
- c1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.54 : When me profereth þe pigge, opon þe pogh, For when he is an olde swyn thow tyte hym nowȝht.
- a1500(?1388) Syng I wold (Dub 516)p.276 : I wolde ful were here pouge [vr. pouche] tanti dulcedine roris.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)618 : Of þat blissinge..Þei may trussen her part in a terre powȝe [vr. poghe].
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)161a/a : Þis fysshe is so witty, ffor, whan he knowes þat he is y-entrede and is withynne þe fysshers pouge [L sportulam], he reseth noȝt forþe hedelyng, noþer putteþ his heuede bitwene þe ȝerdes of þe pouge, but he beteþ faste on þe oþer syde with his taile.
c
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)751/5 : Hoc extum: a gret paugh. Hoc viscus: a bowelle.
d
- (1222) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)415 : Pochell.
- (1238) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)415 : Pochehull..Poghahille..Pouhahille.
- (1284) Cust.Battle Abbey in Camd.n.s.4168 : Poghelegh.
- (1288-9) EPNSoc.50 (Brks.)331 : Poughele.
- (1306) in Fransson Surn.95 : John le Poghwebbesone.
- (1361) EPNSoc.50 (Brks.)331 : Poghele.