scoug

scoug

English

Verb

scoug (third-person singular simple present scougs, present participle scouging, simple past and past participle scouged)

1. Alternative form of scug
   • 1773, Robert Fergusson, Poems on Various Subjects, page 139:

     Like thee they scoug frae street or field, An' hap them in a lyther bield; […]

   • 1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, page 338:

     Often and earnestly I was pressed, "if I were dry, never to think of tasting the lech water, which was not good, but to come up and get a drink;" or "if I was cauld, to come up and get a warm;" or, "if it were a rainy day, to come up and scoug a while."

   • 1896, Peter Hay Hunter, James Inwick, page 3:

     Ye'll scoug it whan it's weet, and ye'll tak a cairt an' gang an' veesit your frien's ony day ye please.

   • 1898, Charles Spence, From the Braes of the Carse: Poems and Songs, page 29:

     Our souter, he has hives o' bees / A'ranged on creepies in a raw, / Weel scouged wi' shrubs and apple trees / Frae ony blast the wind can blaw.