sheugh
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of sheugh
First recorded in 1495–1505; N dialectal variant of sough 2
Example Sentences
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He was a gash an' faithfu' tyke As ever lap a sheugh or dyke.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o’ Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
He was a gash an’ faithful tyke, As ever lap a sheugh or dyke.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Trowth, Caesar, whiles they're fash'd eneugh; A cottar howkin' in a sheugh, Wi' dirty stanes biggin' a dyke.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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