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Verb
scoug (third-person singular simple present scougs, present participle scouging, simple past and past participle scouged)
- Alternative form of scug
1773, Robert Fergusson, Poems on Various Subjects, page 139:Like thee they scoug frae street or field, An' hap them in a lyther bield; […]
1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, page 338:Often and earnestly I was pressed, "if I were dry, never to think of tasting the lech water, which was not good, but to come up and get a drink;" or "if I was cauld, to come up and get a warm;" or, "if it were a rainy day, to come up and scoug a while."
1896, Peter Hay Hunter, James Inwick, page 3:Ye'll scoug it whan it's weet, and ye'll tak a cairt an' gang an' veesit your frien's ony day ye please.
1898, Charles Spence, From the Braes of the Carse: Poems and Songs, page 29:Our souter, he has hives o' bees / A'ranged on creepies in a raw, / Weel scouged wi' shrubs and apple trees / Frae ony blast the wind can blaw.
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