shough
English
Interjection
shough
- Obsolete form of shoo.
- 1623, Fletcher, John; Rowley, William, The Maid in the Mill, page Act 5, scene 1:
- Shough, shough, up to your coop, Pea-Hen.
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Noun
shough (plural shoughs)
- (obsolete) A shockdog.
- 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, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
- Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept
All by the name of dogs: […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shough in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- houghs