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cought

cought is the obsolete spelling of caught.

cought is the misspelling of caught.

cought is the obsolete spelling of coughed.

Meaning of caught

Adjective

caught (not comparable)

  1. Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.

Questions about cought

What is cought the obsolete spelling of?
Cought is the obsolete spelling of caught.

Words near cought in the dictionary

  1. coughs
  2. coughs down
  3. coughs out
  4. coughs over
  5. coughs up
  6. cought
  7. Coughtrey
  8. Coughtreys
  9. coughwort
  10. coughy
  11. Couging it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cought (page history and authors); caught (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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