Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Old Low Franconian *houwa (cf. Middle Dutch houwe), from *houwan 'to hew'. More at hew. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“a kind of hough to break the ice, and make a sort of steps for the mules.”
“The biggest issue i believe is the moral mentality of some of the representatives ... they are just cold hearted. jason hough”
“Apr. 5th, 2010 09: 41 pm (UTC) hough I don't know what RI laws/enforcement are like on that matter ...”
“How you can use it for other file formats (hough recently undergoing a desperate expansion) is also limited compared to other e-readers.”
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“Sat 11/14/09 11: 11 AM jordana brewster, julianne hough, and kristen kreuk”
“It ` ll suit the government hough, for ebery card-board cut-out copper that is nicked, torched, or washed away – they can just print some more.”
“It has python bindings (though on the beagle board, its probably much better to use the native C.) one way to improve the eissq. com workflow is to mask off the edge of the dials (so the text has been removed), you could then skip straight to the hough transform. as there is only one line (the needle) you should only get one result (!).”
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“Frequent hissing and booing. hough it sounds like behavior at one of the health care town hall meetings last month, it was how some Republicans reacted to President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night.”
“Ms. Porat said the company is finished with most of its hiring, t hough it still will bring in new people in isolated cases where they can kick-start a particular business.”
The Wall Street Journal: Morgan Stanley Reports Strong Profit
“And even t hough they vary from city to city, the rules at the Pit are unspoken.”
The Wall Street Journal: Bike Polo Regulars Gather in the Pit
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hough’.
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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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Ugh!
the ending, that is
clough, enough, cough, through, though, thorough, slough, chough, hough, tough, although, borough and 11 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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Dan: You read this already. — Your p...
Long ago, I learned a useful habit from a good friend: Every time he looked up a word in his dictionary, he’d put a mark next to it. His explanation for this was vague at best, but I understood a...
dittography, haplology, haplography, idiomology, cacoepy, orthoepist, psellism, pronunciation spe..., galbe, theropod, publican, sciolist and 111 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1459 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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They Stumble Off The Tongue
Words that are painful to say. The English language was meant to flow, and these words deserve exile. A complement to the list They Roll Off The Tongue.
interrobang, viviparous, irredentist, hypotension, betelgeuse, hough, infrared, ghoti, gloucester, colonel, oases, aposiopesis and 18 more...
Tweets
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man from Piracy (by Adrian Johns):
"Tradesmen with English goods were tarred and feathered, and angry apprentices began 'houghing' soldiers (cutting their hamstrings), which was immediately made a capital offense." Mar 23, 2011
chained_bear "'What's to eat, then?' he asked, sniffing hopefully.
'Depends on what ye've brought,' his sister replied. ... 'If ye've brought meat, we'll have it. If not, it's brose and hough.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (NY: Dell, 1994), 61 Jan 13, 2010
jennarenn Rhymes with lock. Crazy. Jan 31, 2007