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English
Adjective
teugh (comparative more teugh, superlative most teugh)
- (Northumbria, Scotland) tough, stubborn
1868, John Christopher Atkinson, A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical, A. and C. Black, page 526:Teugh, adj. (Pr. of the eu much as in Teuflt). Tough.
"With cordes enewe and ropys Teugh
The Jues felle my limmes out-droghe
For that I was not mete enoghe
Unto the bore"
1897, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world, Volume 8, Century, page 6259:A dialectical (Scottish) form of tough.
"Unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forbye being teugh in the upper-leather."