haugh
See also: Haugh
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)
- (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
- IPA(key): /hɒx/
- (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /haf/
Noun edit
haugh (plural haughs)
- A low-lying meadow in a river valley.