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Crotch vs Clough - What's the difference?

crotch | clough |

As nouns the difference between crotch and clough

is that crotch is the area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place while clough is a narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

As a proper noun Clough is

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crotch

English

Noun

(es)
  • The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.
    • ''There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
  • The (ventral) area of a person’s body where the legs fork from the trunk
    • Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.
  • (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.
    • ''He cringed at being kicked in the crotch .

    Derived terms

    * crotch area * crotch seam * split crotch

    clough

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
    • (Nares)
  • A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
    • (Knight)
  • A cliff; a rocky precipice.
  • (label) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
  • (label) A wood; weald.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * cloff

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

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