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Pouch

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a pouch maker (see Poucher).
  • Polish : possibly a nickname for a shirker, from a derivative of pouchylać się ‘to avoid one’s duties’, ‘shirk’.

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