haugh

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

haugh (plural haughs)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England, Ireland) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
    Synonym: inch
    • 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, [], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: [] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, []; London: John Murray, [], →OCLC, pages 35–36:
      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, []
    • 1884, Alexander Maxwell, The History of Old Dundee:
      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 []
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46:
      The cattle had [] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.

Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh, from Proto-West Germanic *halh.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

haugh (plural haughs)

  1. A low-lying meadow in a river valley.