sheugh
UK/ʃuːx/US/ʃu/
sheugh noun: a ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
Noun
sheugh (plural sheughs)
- A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
- The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).2013 October 31, Frank McNally, “When Anglophone lines get crossed”, in The Irish Times, Dublin: Irish Times Trust, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021
- The space between the buttocks.
- The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.
- The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.
- The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.
Forms of sheugh
| plural | sheughs |
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Origin of sheugh
From Irish seoch, from English sough.
Words that rhyme with sheugh
Questions about sheugh
- What does sheugh mean?
- Sheugh means a ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
- What part of speech is sheugh?
- Sheugh is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sheugh?
- Sheugh is pronounced /ʃu/ (US).
- What is the plural of sheugh?
- The plural of sheugh is sheughs.
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