Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of shock, shoo.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • interjection See shoo.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A shockdog.

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  • interjection Obsolete form of shoo.

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Examples

  • Then riding somwhat neerer to them, he cryed out aloud, Shough, shough, which caused them to set downe their other legs, and all fled away, after they had made a few paces against the winde for their mounting.

    The Decameron 2004

  • He used to go about London streets in shough and rough-spun clothes, a plaid flung from one shoulder.

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • I had another long talk with Ka-hood-oo-shough the next day.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

  • We gave Ka-hood-oo-shough, the old chief, some tobacco and rice and coffee, and pitched our tent near his hut among tall grass.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

  • It's enough to say here, that sometimes one in crassing a stile or ditch would drop into the shough; ** sometimes another would find himself head foremost on the ground; a woman would be capsized here in crassing a ridgy field, bringing her fore-rider to the ground along with her; another would be hanging like a broken arch, ready to come down, till some one would ride up and fix her on the seat.

    The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

  • You fought thour you had your backs to the wall, pinned into a prison, a ghetoo, surrounding by IDF troop, shough many of you have nothing to eat, nothing to drink, no ammunition much and no weapons much.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

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