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Shough vs Hough - What's the difference?

shough | hough |

As nouns the difference between shough and hough

is that shough is (obsolete) a shockdog while hough is the hollow behind the knee or hough can be .

As an interjection shough

is .

As a verb hough is

to hamstring or hough can be .

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)

    hough

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) h?h.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the hollow behind the knee
  • :* 1922': In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the '''houghs of the knees. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hamstring

    • Derived terms

    * hougher

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) howe, from (etyl) houe, from Old Low Franconian *houwa'' (compare Middle Dutch houwe), from *''houwan 'to hew'. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Bishop Stillingfleet)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1748 , , K:LV
  • *:"Better the toiling Swain, oh happier far!
    • Perhaps the happie?t of the Sons of Men!
    Who vigorous plies the Plough, the Team, or Car;
    Who houghs the Field, or ditches in the Glen,
    Delves in his Garden, or ?ecures his Pen."