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Shough vs Chough - What's the difference?

shough | chough |

As nouns the difference between shough and chough

is that shough is (obsolete) a shockdog while chough is two species of bird of the genus pyrrhocorax in the crow family corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of eurasia.

As an interjection shough

is .

shough

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A shockdog.
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III Scene I
    • " Shoughs , water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept/ All by the name of dogs:"
    (Webster 1913)

    chough

    English

    (wikipedia chough) (Pyrrhocorax)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
  • The , of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.

    • Derived terms

    * alpine chough * * white-winged chough