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sheugh
UK /ʃuːx/ US /ʃu/
noun 3
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4ADJ.
atlantic, big, little
VERB + SHEUGH
running
SHEUGH + NOUN
arse
PREP.
down
Definitions
noun
1
A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
2
The space between the buttocks.
The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.
3
The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.
The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.
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The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the h
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The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.
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The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.
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