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Ough vs Vugh - What's the difference?

ough | vugh |

As an interjection ough

is the sound of a grunt or groan or cough.

As a noun vugh is

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ough

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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 ." }}

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    vugh

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1917 , Geological Survey of New South Wales, Mineral resources , Issues 26-35, 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.
  • * 1955 , Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society , Volume 30, 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.
  • * 1957 , Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings , 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.

    Related terms

    * vughy