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Alternative forms

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  • hough, how (dialectal and in placenames)

Etymology

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From Middle English hough (promontory), from Old English hōh.

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Noun

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hogh (plural hoghs)

  1. (obsolete) A hill; a cliff.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Etymology

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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)

  1. pig

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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hogh

  1. Alternative form of hough (hough, hock)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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hogh

  1. Alternative form of hough (promontory)