sheugh

English

Etymology

From Irish seoch, from English sough.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ʃu/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ʃuːx/, /ʃuː/
    Rhymes: -uːx, -uː
  • enPR: shŭᴋʜ, IPA(key): /ʃʌx/
    Rhymes: -ʌx

Noun

sheugh (plural sheughs)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland) A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
    • 2013 October 31, Frank McNally, “When Anglophone lines get crossed”, in The Irish Times‎[1], Dublin: Irish Times Trust, archived from the original on 14 March 2021:
      The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
  2. (Scotland, colloquial, Northern Ireland, especially coastal) The space between the buttocks.
    The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.
  3. (Ireland, colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.
    The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.

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