Did or do any of your Grandmothers call a purse a hand bag?

It makes sense...a bag you carry with your hand.

Mine call them "pocketbooks"...I'd like to know how THAT started.

In American English, a purse is a small bag, also called a handbag or a pocketbook.

In British English, a purse is a small money container similar to a wallet, but typically used by women and including a compartment for coins, with a handbag being considerably larger; indeed, a purse is often kept in a handbag.

A purse or handbag is often fashionably designed, typically used by women, and is used to hold items such as wallet, keys, tissues, makeup, a hairbrush, cellular device or personal digital assistant, feminine products, or other items.

A purse is the female equivalent of a wallet

A handbag is a normal women's bag.

A pocketbook is a small book that policemen carry.

Mine always called them "pocketbooks." I've heard that "handbag" is more a Brit term and "purse" more an American one, but I don't know if that's true.

Nopey, my gran calls everything sack, no matter if it's a groccery bag or her purse, they're all sack.

Poor woman.

Oh my nana calls it a bag or purse i havent ever heard that one

I don't know. One grandmother died when I was 6 and the other one died before I was born.

Mine called hers a pocketbook....she was from MO. My other I don't remember she passed away while i was still young....

my grandma called it a pocketbook also. i have no idea where that came from

My grandma called it her "bag."

Don't know why. Maybe because of her Belgian ancestry?