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sheugh.

A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʃu/US/ʃuːx/UK/ʃuː/UK/ʃʌx/
  1. A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.

    Ireland · Scotland
  2. The space between the buttocks.

    Northern-Ireland · Scotland · colloquial
    The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.
  3. The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.

    Ireland · colloquial
    The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.
Where this word comes from

From Irish seoch, from English sough.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.