Ough vs Eugh - What's the difference?
ough | eugh |
The sound of a grunt or groan or cough
*{{quote-book, year=1856, author=John Esten Cooke, title=The Last of the Foresters, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Ough! ough'! ' ough !" groaned the old woman; "he wants to go, away from the nest where he was warmed, and nursed, and brought up. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1874, author=H. S. Caswell, title=The Path of Duty, and Other Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We strove to extort from him the cause of this ebullition of passion, but he only shook his head in reply to our questions, and uttered a guttural "ough ." }}
*{{quote-book
, author =
, title =
, year = 1902 (reprint)
, page = 12
, passage = ...you must take such Things, as are Greene all Winter; Holly; Ivy; Bayes; Juniper; Cipresse Trees; Eugh ;...
}}
As an interjection ough
is the sound of a grunt or groan or cough.As a noun eugh is
obsolete form of lang=en.ough
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Interjection
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*eugh
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)