Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tree branch, especially a large or main branch.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An arm or branch of a tree.
- n. The gallows.
- To cover over or shade with boughs.
- n. An obsolete spelling of bow.
- n. An obsolete spelling of buff.
- An obsolete spelling of bo.
- To strip of boughs.
- To send out boughs.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
- n. Archaic A gallows.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of the larger branches of a tree
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English bōg ("shoulder, bough"), from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“upper arm, shoulder”) (compare German Bug ("shoulder, hock, joint")), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāǵʰus (“forearm, elbow”) (compare Ancient Greek πῆχυς (pēchys, "forearm"), Old Armenian բազուկ (bazuk, "arm, forearm, bough"), Persian بازو (bāzu, "upper arm"), Sanskrit बाहु (bahus, "arm")). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English bōh; see bhāghu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The river swollen by autumnal rains, deluged the low lands, and Adrian in his favourite boat is employed in the dangerous pastime of plucking the topmost bough from a submerged oak.”
“moths being burgled dogs needing stitches canals making phone calls the bough breaking...”
“Take these five words that all end in "ough." bough rhymes with cow cough rhymes with off rough rhymes with puff though rhymes with slow through rhymes with boo”
“The bough was the hand that had struck them out of the darkness, had thrown her to the sod and killed her animal.”
“Having ordered silence, he said that the bough should be my prize, if I vanquished {537} the Egyptian -- but that if he conquered me, he should kill me with a sword.”
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“Some trees of this kind are entirely green, with the exception perhaps of a single bough, which is of a bright crimson or scarlet.”
“He had been taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a bough) in his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying on the ground, and had picked it up.”
“In Roman mythology, the bough was a tree branch with golden leaves that enabled the Trojan hero Aeneas to travel through the underworld safely.”
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“The old woman came, "There thou seest how easy the work was!" said she; "but for whom hast thou left that bough which is lying there still?”
“Say, I bough some currency or some stock, waited until it went up, and sold it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bough’.
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
accept, except, adverse, averse, advice, advise, affect, effect, aisle, isle, all together, altogether and 134 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Unfamiliar words from Cat's Cradle by...
conveyances, folly, anecdotes, parable, flue, dawdling, bough, spiraea, illustrious, unsung, enterprising, loafed and 116 more...
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Ugh!
the ending, that is
clough, enough, cough, through, though, thorough, slough, chough, hough, tough, although, borough and 11 more...
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Garbiage
word trash
parapluie, brobdingnagian, plié, segue, laconic, pastoral, phthisis, belly, synecdoche, apotheosis, sepulchral, mollification and 40 more...
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The chaos of "ough" words
Don't even start me on the chaos of English words containing the sequence "ough". Let's create a list to see how many unique pronunciations we get from this sequence of letters.
though, through, enough, thought, slough, rough, dough, bough, cough, ought, doughty, thorough
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Poetry words
Hope to use these in poetry
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CCW
Commonly Confused Words
wreath, wreathe, titillate, titivate, proscribe, prescribe, pedal, peddle, mettle, metal, palette, palate and 132 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Cellar Door
It's the way the letters combine to form an beautiful whole and the way its sound tickles the ear.
capricious, sigh, jest, psyche, elf, wither, languish, wane, fade, caustic, pithy, epicene and 127 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (B)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
balcony, bailey, baguette, bairn, balalaika, baldric, balefire, baby's breath, ballet, balm of gilead, balsam, baluster and 188 more...
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botany for amateurs
edelweiss, heartsease, cherry blossom, crocus, belladonna, hibiscus, baby's breath, snapdragon, black-eyed susan, clover, mulch, peat and 91 more...
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Poetrie: Sailing To Byzantium
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That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the ma...salmon, mackerel, unageing, paltry, tatter, byzantium, sage, mosaic, perne, gyre, artifice, grecian and 3 more...
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bush, bough, twig, trunk, thron, oak, bud, pine, petal, mamal, claw, worm and 36 more...
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Decemberists' Words
Significant words from the bands lyrics
bellfry, ravine, parapet, petticoat, gunwales, minion, pinioned, rend, kith, sapling, cul-de-sac, cocoon and 21 more...
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