shough

English

Interjection

shough

Obsolete form of shoo.
- 1623, Fletcher, John; Rowley, William, The Maid in the Mill, page Act 5, scene 1:
  Shough, shough, up to your coop, Pea-Hen.

Noun

shough (plural shoughs)

(obsolete) A shockdog.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept
  All by the name of dogs: […]

References

shough in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

houghs

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