sheugh

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Irish seoch.

Pronunciation

• enPR: shŭᴋʜ, IPA^(key): /ʃʌx/

Noun

sheugh (plural sheughs)

1. (Ireland, Scotland) A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
2. (Scotland, colloquial) The space between the buttocks.

   The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.

3. (Ireland, colloquial) The Atlantic ocean, the sea.

Anagrams

• Hughes, heughs