different between clough vs chough

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English clough, clow, clogh, Old English *cl?h, from Proto-Germanic *klanhaz, *klanh? (“cleft, sluice, abyss”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cleuch (“gorge; ravine”), Old High German kl?h (in placenames), Old High German klingo, klinga (“brook, cataract, gulf, rapids”). Perhaps conflated or influenced by Old Norse klofi (“a cleft or rift in a hill, ravine”); compare Dutch kloof (“a slit, crevice, chink”). See also cling, clove.

Alternative forms

• cleugh, cleuch (Scotland)
• cleugh (Northumbria)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?f/, /kla?/

Noun

clough (plural cloughs)

1. (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

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2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

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3. A cliff; a rocky precipice.
4. (dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
5. (dialectal) A wood; weald.

Derived terms

• Howden Clough

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

• cloff

Pronunciation

Noun

clough (plural cloughs)

1. Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “clough”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• clough in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English choughe, cho?e, coo, cheo, from Old English ??o (“a bird of the genus Corvus, a jay, crow, jackdaw, chough”) and ?eahhe (“a daw”), both from Proto-West Germanic *kahwu (“jackdaw, crow”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to crow, caw, shout”).

Cognate with Scots kae (“jackdaw”), West Frisian ka (“jackdaw”), Dutch kauw (“jackdaw, daw, chough”), Swedish kaja (“jackdaw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??f/
• (UK)
• Rhymes: -?f
• Homophone: chuff

Noun

chough (plural choughs)

1. Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
   • c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:

     For parot is no churlish Chowgh, nor no flekyd pye
     Parrot is no pendugum, that men call a carlyng
     Parrot is no woodecocke, nor no butterfly
     Parrot is no stameryng stare, y^t men call a starlyng
     But Parot is my owne dere harte, & my dere derl?g

2. The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.

Derived terms

• alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)
• red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
• white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)

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