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English
Etymology
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
Noun
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
Etymology
Inherited from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh, from Proto-West Germanic *halh.
Pronunciation
Noun
haugh (plural haughs)
- A low-lying meadow in a river valley.