woughとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• waugh
• wogh, woghe, wau, waw, woa, woh, wo (dialectal)

名詞

wough (plural woughs)

1. (dialectal, archaic or obsolete) A wall.

関連する語

• waw

語源 2

間投詞

wough

1. Alternative form of woof
   • 1922, Gordon Casserly, The Jungle Girl‎:

     As it scrambled swiftly over the edge it caught sight of the elephant and with a deep "wough!" charged straight at it.

   • 1884, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches‎:

     The trapper shouted and waved his cap; whereupon, to his amazement, the bear uttered a loud "wough" and charged straight down on him--only to fall a victim to misplaced boldness.

   • 1863, Various, The Children's Garland from the Best Poets‎:

     Bough wough, The watch dogs bark, Bough wough, Hark, hark!

参照

• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 548

語源

From 古期英語 wōh; from Proto-Germanic *wanhaz.

形容詞

wough

1. wrong, unjust, bad
2. evil, immoral
3. untrue, inaccurate
4. curved, bent

同意語

• ivel, yvel
• badde

派生した語

• English: wough

参照

• “wough, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-27.

名詞

wough

1. A wrong or unjust action
2. A sinful or immoral action
3. An inaccuracy or mistake
4. depravity, moral corruption
5. woe, misery, pain

派生した語

• English: wough

参照

• “wough, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-27.