sheugh

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ʃuːx/|/ʃuː/    美 /ʃu/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries. Ireland,Scotland
    — 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. The space between the buttocks. Northern-Ireland,Scotland,colloquial
    — The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.
  3. The Atlantic Ocean; the sea. Ireland,colloquial
    — The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.

词形变化

sheughs plural

词源

From Irish seoch, from English sough.
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