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haughs

haughs is the plural of haugh.

Meaning of haugh

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, […]...
    Synonyms:
    inch

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Proper noun capitalized: Haughs

Haughs

  1. (plural) plural of Haugh

Questions about haughs

What is haughs the plural of?
Haughs is the plural of haugh.
What part of speech is haughs?
Haughs is a proper noun.

Words near haughs in the dictionary

  1. Haughey
  2. Haugheys
  3. haughland
  4. haughlands
  5. Haughley
  6. haughs
  7. haught
  8. haughten
  9. haughtier
  10. haughtiest
  11. haughtily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haughs (page history and authors); Haughs (page history and authors); haugh (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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