Definitions for choughs

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Spelling: [chuhf]
IPA: /tʃʌf/

Choughs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in choughs (cghhosu).

Definitions for choughs

noun

  1. any of several crowlike Old World birds, especially Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of Europe.

Origin of choughs

1275-1325; Middle English choghe; akin to Old English cēo, Dutch kauw, Danish kaa

Examples for choughs

We were told that to this day no Cornishman likes to shoot a chough or a raven.

Angelo, the would-be Puritan ruler, was a "false seemer," Malvolio was a "chough."

It is not so easy to see a chough now outside of a "collection."

The head of the chough, like the rest of its body, is perfectly black.

The chough appears to be a sedentary species in all parts of its distribution.

Jacky was a Cornish chough, coal-black in plumage, with brilliant orange-tinted beak.

chough, chuf, n. a kind of jackdaw which frequents rocky places on the seacoast.

"Come and see," croaked the chough, hopping towards the door.

In the silence the call of the chough on the terrace could be distinctly heard right across the combe.

"Now the chough is protected by Act of Parliament," said Guy.

Word Value for choughs
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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