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Hough vs Lough - What's the difference?

hough | lough |

As nouns the difference between hough and lough

is that hough is the hollow behind the knee or hough can be while lough is a lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in ireland.

As a verb hough

is to hamstring or hough can be .

hough

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) h?h.

Noun

(en noun)
  • the hollow behind the knee
  • :* 1922': In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the '''houghs of the knees. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hamstring

    • Derived terms

    * hougher

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) howe, from (etyl) houe, from Old Low Franconian *houwa'' (compare Middle Dutch houwe), from *''houwan 'to hew'. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Bishop Stillingfleet)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1748 , , K:LV
  • *:"Better the toiling Swain, oh happier far!
    • Perhaps the happie?t of the Sons of Men!
    Who vigorous plies the Plough, the Team, or Car;
    Who houghs the Field, or ditches in the Glen,
    Delves in his Garden, or ?ecures his Pen."

    lough

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 26, Henry McDonald, It's got fancy flats, a hotel. Even a bank. But can the Titanic Quarter stay afloat?, The Guardian citation
    • , passage=Outside, a freezing wind whips across Belfast lough

    Synonyms

    * loch (in Scotland)

    Anagrams

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