Sough vs Swough - What's the difference?
sough | swough |
To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.
*1963 , Sterling North, Rascal , Avon Books (softcover), p 101:
*:I lay awake for a while that evening, listening to the soughing of the wind high in the pines, realizing sadly that we must now return to civilization.
A rushing, rustling sound.
* W. Howitt
A sigh.
(Scotland, obsolete) A vague rumour.
(Scotland, obsolete) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
(obsolete) A sound; a groan or moan; a sough.
(obsolete) A swoon.
As nouns the difference between sough and swough
is that sough is a rushing, rustling sound or sough can be a small drain; an adit while swough is (obsolete) a sound; a groan or moan; a sough.As a verb sough
is to make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.sough
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest.
See also
* susurrusEtymology 2
From (etyl) (whence also (etyl) .swough
English
Noun
(en noun)- He sigheth with full many a sorry swough . — Chaucer.
- (Chaucer)