Ough vs Vugh - What's the difference?
ough | vugh |
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 ." }}
* 1917 , Geological Survey of New South Wales, Mineral resources , Issues 26-35,
* 1955 , Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society , Volume 30,
* 1957 , Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings ,
As an interjection ough
is the sound of a grunt or groan or cough.As a noun vugh is
.ough
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*vugh
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(en noun)page 106,
- Several years later larger vughs' at lower levels were met with containing a much greater number of stalactites. One ' vugh as large as a room contained so many that it was difficult to move about in it.
page 60,
- The explanation of the not infrequent pairs of hemispherical concretionary masses with polished cross-sections might lie in the miners carefully extracting the rounded and bulbous masses of fluorite projecting from vugh linings.
page 107,
- The largest patch seen, which is about 2 cm. across, is a milky white crystal almost filling a small vugh in otherwise barren white quartz from the 3-level.