Definitions for Bough

Bough bough

Spelling: [bou]
IPA: /baʊ/

Bough is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in Bough (bghou).

Definitions for Bough

noun

  1. a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.

Origin of Bough

before 1000; Middle English bogh, Old English bōg, bōh shoulder, bough; cognate with Old Norse bōgr, Dutch boeg, German Bug, Greek pêchys, Sanskrit bāhu

Examples for Bough

That bough there tires me with its waving and its rising, as if it was alive.

Nay, he would not be butchered like a bird on a bough, he would fall fighting.

So he took a bough of fir, thick-set with little twigs, and tied the kill on that.

It appeared that “Flintergill” had been sawing off the bough on which he was standing.

And from tree to tree, and from bough to bough, vine branches hung in confusion.

Did you see those two birds fly away from that bough, sudden-like?

The seventh of these hath a bough which shoots over the boundary wall.

It matters not much what part of the bough the twig growes out of.

They bent down the bough and picked it, and then allowed it to fly up again.

A small branch will become a bough, and a bough an arme in bignesse.

Word Value for Bough
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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