hogh
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From Middle English hough (“promontory”), from Old English hōh.
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hogh (plural hoghs)
- (obsolete) A hill; a cliff.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The westerne Hogh, besprincled with the gore Of mighty Goëmot
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hogh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Cornish edit
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From Old Cornish hoch, from Proto-Brythonic *hux, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₁- (“swine”).
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hogh m (plural hohes)
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hogh
- Alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”)
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hogh
- Alternative form of hough (“promontory”)