haugh
/hɔː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.13 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An English surname.
Example Sentences
- "The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]"
- "The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]"
- "The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy."
- "It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]"
Etymology
From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.
Origin
- Source language: Old English