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teugh

teugh adjective: tough, stubborn.

Adjective

teugh (comparative more teugh, superlative most teugh)

  1. (Northumbria, Scotland) tough, stubborn
    • Teugh, adj. (Pr. of the eu much as in Teuflt). Tough.
      "With cordes enewe and ropys Teugh
      The Jues felle my limmes out-droghe
      For that I was not mete enoghe
      Unto the bore"1868, John Christopher Atkinson, A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical, A. and C. Black, page 526
    • A dialectical (Scottish) form of tough.
      "Unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forbye being teugh in the upper-leather."1897, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world, Volume 8...

Forms of teugh

comparativemore teugh
superlativemost teugh

Questions about teugh

What does teugh mean?
Teugh means tough, stubborn.
What part of speech is teugh?
Teugh is an adjective.

Words near teugh in the dictionary

  1. teucrium
  2. teucriums
  3. Teufel
  4. Teufels
  5. Teufen
  6. teugh
  7. Teumessian
  8. Teumessian fox
  9. Teunissen-Cremers syndrome
  10. teupolin
  11. Teurian

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