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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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 family of PC Clough described the former soldier as "our hero".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough were the two police officers who died in the crash.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The first board of county commissioners consisted of Oscar Smith, Hugh Wylie and Elbridge G. Clough.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
Ay, there's a many of them down in yon clough.
From The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story by Angela Brazil
"You measure from the clough, I presume, sir?" remarked Potts to Nowell.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
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
The road turns off sharply inland at Vitt, a tiny fisher-hamlet we came upon unexpectedly, hidden in a deep clough.
From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth von Arnim
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