hough
UK/hɒk//hɑk/
hough is the alternative form of hock.
hough is the obsolete spelling of hoe.
hough is the archaic spelling of hoe.
hough is the alternative form of hoe.
Meaning of hock
Noun (1)
hock (countable and uncountable, plural hocks)
- A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.1891 [1887], Oscar Wilde, “The Model Millionaire”, in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
- Synonyms:
- Hochheimer
Noun (2)
hock (countable and uncountable, plural hocks)
- The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
- Anyway, you only have one golden retriever, SWORDDOG, and she is already armed to the hocks.2013, Kazerad, Gaius: Recap goals, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), February 06 2013
- Meat from that part of a food animal.
- The hollow behind the knee.
Noun (3)
hock (uncountable)
Meaning of hoe
Noun (1)
hoe (plural hoes)
- An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
- For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.
- Synonyms:
- hand hoe
- Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
- The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]
Noun (2)
hoe (plural hoes)
- A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
Noun (3)
hoe (plural hoes)
- The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
Proper noun capitalized: Hough
UK/hʌf/Australia/hɐf/
Hough
- A surname.
- A village and former civil parish, now in Hough and Chorlton parish, south of Crewe, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7150).
- A hamlet in Alderley Edge parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ8578).
- A settlement on the island of Tiree, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NL9545).
- A neighbourhood of Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Texas County, Oklahoma, United States.
Synonyms of hough
Forms of hough
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | houghs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | houghs |
| present participle | houghing |
| past participle | houghed |
| past | houghed |
Origin of hough
From Middle English hough, houȝ, hoch, howghe, from Old English hōh (“heel, hough”), from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel”). Doublet of hoo. The regular modern English development would be /hʌf/, /haʊ/; this has been replaced by /hɒk/, originating in the compound huxen (also *hoxen), from Old English hōhsinu.
See hoe (“agricultural tool”).
From Middle English ho, howe, hogh, from Old English hōh (“a promontory”).
Words formed from hough
Phrases with hough
Words that rhyme with hough
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- sock
- unlock
- baroque
- flock
- locke
- mock
- ad hoc
- frock
- unblock
- undock
- VOC
- chock
- defrock
- nock
- o'clock
- prairie dock
- proc
- smock
- acock
- amok
- bangkok
- bloc
- Carvel Rock
- doc
- grok
- loch
- pock
- slock
- wedlock
- wok
- 24-hour clock
- bock
- bok
- brocc
- choc
- croc
- digital clock
- drop lock
- Farallon Rock
- flight sock
- freezer block
- gock
- hashlock
- hock
- kozachok
- lough
- Nixon shock
- oc
Questions about hough
- What does hough mean?
- Hough means a surname.
- What is hough the alternative form of?
- Hough is the alternative form of hock.
- What part of speech is hough?
- Hough is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hough?
- Hough is pronounced /hɒk/ (UK).
Words near hough in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hough (page history and authors); Hough (page history and authors); hock (page history and authors); hoe (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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