Clough
noun
Arthur Hugh, 1819–61, English poet.
Clough
American
[kluhf]
/ klʌf /
noun
Clough
1
British
/ klʌf /
noun
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Arthur Hugh. 1819–61, British poet, author of Amours de Voyage (1858) and Dipsychus (1865)
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Brian. 1935–2004, English footballer and manager
clough
2
British
/ klʌf /
noun
Etymology
Origin of clough
Old English clōh
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Three years later, after Brian Clough took Forest to the top, Liverpool were European champions again when Alan Kennedy's goal downed Real Madrid in Paris.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Sheen, 57, is acclaimed for his ability to convincingly portray a range of different personalities on screen, from Tony Blair to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor via Brian Clough.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Officers PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, died at the scene.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Fuller also paid tribute to the two officers who died in the A66 crash - PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The South Fork, or Hockett Trail, starts at the end of the South Fork Road 13 miles above Three Rivers at the Clough Cave entrance to the park.
From Sequoia [California] National Park by United States. Dept. of the Interior
The house nestled deep in the clough, upon a shelf of green land, near the moorland stream.
From Th' Barrel Organ by Edwin Waugh
In the following exceptions, however, gh are pronounced as f:—cough, chough, clough, enough, laugh, rough, slough, tough, trough.
From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous
So he kissed the youngling, and rode away south across the stream and over the other side of the clough.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
The mud, mingled with stones, many of large size, rolled down a precipitous and rugged clough that descended from it.
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland
It was getting too near dark to go by the moor tops, so I made off towards a cottage in the next clough, where an old quarry-man lived, called "Jone o'Twilter's."
From Th' Barrel Organ by Edwin Waugh
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