shough

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noun

A shockdog.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

interjection
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of shoo.

    Shough, shough, up to your coop, Pea-Hen.

    1623, John Fletcher, William Rowley, The Maid in the Mill, page Act 5, scene 1
nounshough (plural shoughs)

plural shoughs

  1. obsoleteA shockdog.

    Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept All by the name of dogs: […]

    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]
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