Clough
noun
Arthur Hugh, 1819–61, English poet.
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Clough
American
[kluhf]
/ klʌf /
noun
Clough
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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
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British
/ klʌf /
noun
Etymology
Origin of clough
Old English clōh
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The Passat and the car PC Clough and PC Blades were in collided around 17 seconds later.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
PC Clough had served in the Army and Somerville said she had "the privilege" of speaking to his partner.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Officers PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, died at the scene.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
It was told PC Blades was identified by his wife and PC Clough by his partner.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Dryden's translation revised by Clough is the best.
From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Frank Parsons
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
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
And at nightfall, when the driven Bolts of heaven Smite the rock and break the bluff, Thither troop the elves whose home is Where the foam is, And the echo and the clough.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
"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
To the left, in a clough, was an enormous yellow marlpit, with pools of water in its depths, and gangways of planks along them, and a few overturned wheelbarrows lying here and there.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
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