Rocky vs Clough - What's the difference?
rocky | clough |
Unstable; easily rocked.
In the style of rock and roll music.
(figuratively) Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.
Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.
Like a rock.
(figuratively) Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
A cliff; a rocky precipice.
(label) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
(label) A wood; weald.
Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
As proper nouns the difference between rocky and clough
is that rocky is a male given name, pet form of rocco while clough is .rocky
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(en-adj)- The table was rocky , so we put a book under one leg.
- His new album is quite rocky .
- Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.
Derived terms
* rocky chairEtymology 2
From .Adjective
(er)- a rocky mountain
- a rocky shore
- ''the rocky orb of a shield
Derived terms
* rocky roadAnagrams
*clough
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)- (Nares)
- (Knight)