Sheugh
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ʃu/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sheugh is a noun meaning (Ireland, Scotland) A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
Meaning
(Ireland, Scotland) A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
More Meanings
- (Scotland, colloquial, Northern Ireland, especially coastal) The space between the buttocks.
- (Ireland, colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.
Example Sentences
The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.
The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.
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).
Word Forms
- sheughs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shaugh, haugh, inch, sheelin, airigh, sheal.
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