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Haugh vs Hauch - What's the difference?

haugh | hauch |

As nouns the difference between haugh and hauch

is that haugh is (scotland|northern england) a low-lying meadow by the side of a river while hauch is (scotland) a cough or gasp.

haugh

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough.
  • *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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    hauch

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A cough or gasp