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
The Passat and the car PC Clough and PC Blades were in collided around 17 seconds later.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
PC Clough had served in the Army, with one man saying he was a "true friend, fantastic soldier and I have no doubt even better police officer".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But Clough was not born for unquestioning belief, and the reaction shook his whole faith.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
With a feeling of angry disappointment, Richard was about to turn back, when a large black greyhound came from out an adjoining clough, and made towards him.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
In the following exceptions, however, gh is pronounced as f: cough, chough, clough, enough, laugh, rough, slough, tough, trough.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
A considerable circuit had to be made before the bottom of the clough could be reached, and then the whole tragedy was revealed.
From A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales by Sir Charles L. (Charles Lawrence) Young
A clough; also, a sort of boat used in Ireland, a coracle.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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