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Shough vs Sheugh - What's the difference?

shough | sheugh |

As nouns the difference between shough and sheugh

is that shough is (obsolete) a shockdog while sheugh is a ditch.

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)

    sheugh

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ditch.

    • Usage notes

    This usage current in rural areas of Ulster (Northern Ireland and northern Republic of Ireland) and parts of Scotland. It is also used in (at least) the West of Scotland to refer to the space between the buttocks - not the anus or cheeks, but rather the area where the two buttock cheeks meet. Colloquially used when labouring - "The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse"

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