English Explanatory Dictionary

hough

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Alternative form of hock (“the hollow behind the knee”).
  2. Alternative form of hock (“tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped”).
verb
  1. Alternative form of hock (“to hamstring”).
noun
  1. Obsolete spelling of hoe.
verb
  1. Archaic spelling of hoe.
noun
  1. Alternative form of hoe.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A village and former civil parish, now in Hough and Chorlton parish, south of Crewe, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7150).
  3. A hamlet in Alderley Edge parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ8578).
  4. A settlement on the island of Tiree, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NL9545).
  5. A neighbourhood of Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Texas County, Oklahoma, United States.

Pronunciation

/hɒk/ /hɑk/ /hʌf/ en-us-huff.ogg /hɐf/ /hʊf/

Word forms

hough houghs houghing houghed

Etymology

From Middle English hough, houȝ, hoch, howghe, from Old English hōh (“heel, hough”), from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel”). Doublet of hoo. The regular modern English development would be /hʌf/, /haʊ/; this has been replaced by /hɒk/, originating in the compound huxen (also *hoxen), from Old English hōhsinu.

Synonyms

hamstring hock hox

Derived words

hougher Hough and Chorlton Hough Green Hough-on-the-Hill Hough transform
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