sough
1- to make a rushing, rustling, or murmuring sound: the wind soughing in the meadow.
- Scot. and North England. to speak, especially to preach, in a whining, singsong voice.
- a sighing, rustling, or murmuring sound.
- Scot. and North England.
- a sigh or deep breath.
- a whining, singsong manner of speaking.
- a rumor; unconfirmed report.
Origin of sough
1sough
2- drain; drainage ditch, gutter, or sewer.
- a swampy or marshy area.
- to drain (land or a mine) by building drainage ditches or the like.
Origin of sough
2Related Words for sough
sigh, burble, ripple, utter, verbalize, mumble, gurgle, purr, growl, vocalize, tinkle, whisper, moan, babble, hum, stutter, mutter, rumble, trickle, stammerExamples from the Web for sough
Historical Examples of sough
The old man doubtless wanted a sough of peace in his own home.
An Orkney MaidAmelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Naught was heard save the droning of the students and the sough of the wind in the forest.
Dreamers of the GhettoI. Zangwill
The sough of the calm sea could not reach so far; the flies were few; no bird sang.
BeyondJohn Galsworthy
If there's a' sough o' cholera,Or typhus,—wha sae gleg as she?
The Book of Humorous VerseVarious
He could hear the sough of the sea on the beach, far down below him.
Washed AshoreW.H.G. Kingston
sough
1- (intr) (esp of the wind) to make a characteristic sighing sound
- a soft continuous murmuring sound
Word Origin for sough
sough
2- Northern English dialect a sewer or drain or an outlet channel
Word Origin for sough
Word Origin and History for sough
"to make a moaning or murmuring sound," Old English swogan "to sound, roar, howl, rustle, whistle," from Proto-Germanic *swoganan (cf. Old Saxon swogan "to rustle," Gothic gaswogjan "to sigh"), from PIE imitative root *(s)wagh- (cf. Greek echo, Latin vagire "to cry, roar, sound"). The noun is late 14c., from the verb.