teugh

comparative more teugh · superlative most teugh

1. NorthumbriaScotlandtough, stubborn

   A dialectical (Scottish) form of tough. "Unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forbye being teugh in the upper-leather."

   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

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   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"

   1868, John Christopher Atkinson, A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical, A. and C. Black, page 526