Haugh vs Faugh - What's the difference?
haugh | faugh |
(Scotland, northern England) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
* Sir Walter Scott
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 46:
*:The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.
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(dated) An exclamation of disgust, especially for a smell, or contempt.
* 1900' Mary Harriott Norris (editor), '''1823 , American Book Company, page
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, passage=It was a lovely afternoon, replete with blue sky, beaming sun, buzzing insects and what not, an afternoon that seemed to call to one to be out in the open with God's air playing on one's face and something cool in a glass at one's side, and here was I, just to oblige Bobbie Wickham, tooling along a corridor indoors on my way to search a comparative stranger's bedroom, this involving crawling on floors and routing under beds and probably getting covered with dust and fluff. The thought was a bitter one, and I don't suppose I have ever come closer to saying ‘Faugh !’}}
As a noun haugh
is a low-lying meadow by the side of a river.As an interjection faugh is
an exclamation of disgust, especially for a smell, or contempt.haugh
English
Noun
(en noun)- On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough.
faugh
English
Alternative forms
fough (obsolete)Interjection
(en interjection)24:
- The very scent of the carrion—faugh —reached my nostrils at the distance where we stood.
