Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal (Scotch) form of
tough .
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Examples
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Ai thunk dis kitteh shyl waif hiss taill an putz sum toppn on de mappl sirupz, dat teuch dem stinngie hoomins.
Iād haz a happee too - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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'Remember,' said Rebus, 'teuch is Scots for tough.
Mortal Causes Rankin, Ian 1994
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There's naebody kens that better than me, for I've haen the teuch end
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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"The Hebrew's a grand thing, though teuch, I'm telled, michty teuch."
The Little Minister 1898
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"Domsie wesna far wrang, a 'see, but it's no possible ye cud tell us the names o' Jacob's sons; it's maybe no fair tae ask sic a teuch question," knowing all the while that this was a test case of
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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"Hoots!" returned Jean, who looked upon Janet as a lover of conundrums, "ye're aye warstlin 'wi' run k-nots an 'teuch moo'fu's."
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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"The Hebrew's a grand thing, though teuch, I'm telled, michty teuch."
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern ā Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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"God has, for His ain wise ends, made the heart o 'the puir man that has just left us tender, an' He's made mine teuch, but tak 'notice, thou wolf in sheep's clothing, that it's no upon its teuchness but upon the speerit o' the Lord that I depend for grace to withstand on this evil day."
Hunted and Harried 1859
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Moreover, it's my opeenion that if ye hadna been starvin 'ye wadna have been here' e noo, for ye're uncommon teuch.
Hunted and Harried 1859
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An expofition oh the penta - teuch, and which is in a three - fold mannner, viz. Litteral,
Lingua sacra: : in three parts. Part I. Contains a complete Hebrew grammar ... Part II. A complete Hebrew-English dictionary ... Part III. To contain all words ... used in the English tongue ... and explained in Hebrew. Levi, David, 1740-1799 1785
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