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haugh

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Northern England/hɔː/

haugh noun: a low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

Noun

haugh (plural haughs)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
    • The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...
    • The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]1884, Alexander Maxwell, The History of Old Dundee
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Proper noun capitalized: Haugh

Haugh (plural Haughs)

  1. An English surname.

Synonyms of haugh

Forms of haugh

Noun
pluralhaughs
Proper noun
pluralHaughs

Origin of haugh

From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.

* As an Irish surname, from Ó hEachach (“descendant of Eochu”), a popular name derived from Old Irish ech (“horse”). * As an English and Scottish surname, from Early Scots halh (“minor elevation in a marshland”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Hough.

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Words that rhyme with haugh

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Questions about haugh

What does haugh mean?
Haugh means a low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
What part of speech is haugh?
Haugh can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce haugh?
Haugh is pronounced /hɔː/ (Northern England).
What is the plural of haugh?
The plural of haugh is haughs.

Words near haugh in the dictionary

  1. Haugen
  2. Haugens
  3. Hauger
  4. Haugers
  5. Haugesund
  6. haugh
  7. Haugh unit
  8. Haugh units
  9. Haughey
  10. Haugheys
  11. haughland

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