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- noun A
ditch .
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Examples
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I lie backward on the grass, my arm falling in a sheugh.
The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007
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As ever lap a sheugh or dyke; [leapt, ditch, wall]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Sheugh — sheugh! — awa wi’ye, that hae spilled sae muckle blude, and now wad save your ain — awa wi’ye for a railing Rabshakeh, a cursing Shimei, a bloodthirsty Doeg! —
Old Mortality 2004
karensa commented on the word sheugh
A ditch or a trench (Scots).
Colloquially (and somewhat crassly), it can also be used to mean the space between the buttocks, as in: "the sweat is running doon the sheugh of my arse".
August 18, 2009