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shough

shough is the obsolete form of shoo.

Meaning of shoo

Interjection

  1. (informal) Go away! Clear off!
    • Shoo, fly, don't bother me!

See all 4 meanings of shoo

Noun

shough (plural shoughs)

  1. (obsolete) A shockdog.
    • Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept
      All by the name of dogs: […]c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of shough

pluralshoughs

Questions about shough

What does shough mean?
Shough means a shockdog.
What is shough the obsolete form of?
Shough is the obsolete form of shoo.
What part of speech is shough?
Shough is a noun.
What is the plural of shough?
The plural of shough is shoughs.

Words near shough in the dictionary

  1. Shotwick Park
  2. shou'd
  3. shou'dn't
  4. shou'dst
  5. Shoufeng
  6. shough
  7. shoughs
  8. shoujo
  9. shoujo ai
  10. should
  11. should hope

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shough (page history and authors); shoo (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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