Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sheugh

/ʃu/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sheugh
IPA: /ʃu/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.

noun

The space between the buttocks.

Colloquial

noun

The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh)."
"The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse."
"The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh."

Etymology

From Irish seoch, from English sough.

Origin

Source language: Irish

Word Breakdown

Root: seoch, sough

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ʃu/
British English: /ʃuːx/

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

sheughs (plural)

Rhymes With

fugh cleuch you do who new two too you-know-who through few true

Questions

How do you pronounce sheugh?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʃu/.
What does sheugh mean?: A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
Where does sheugh come from?: It is traced to Irish.

How to pronounce sheugh

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