Pugh vs Ough - What's the difference?
pugh | ough |
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 ." }}
As interjections the difference between pugh and ough
is that pugh is pshaw; pish; a word used in contempt or disdain while ough is the sound of a grunt or groan or cough.As a proper noun Pugh
is {{surname|from=Welsh}.ough
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