Definitions for soughs

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soughs sough

Spelling: [sou, suhf]

IPA: /saʊ, sʌf/

Soughs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in soughs (ghossu).

Definitions for soughs

noun

1. a sighing, rustling, or murmuring sound.
2. Scot. and North England. a sigh or deep breath. a whining, singsong manner of speaking. a rumor; unconfirmed report.
3. drain; drainage ditch, gutter, or sewer.
4. a swampy or marshy area.

verb (used with object)

1. to drain (land or a mine) by building drainage ditches or the like.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a rushing, rustling, or murmuring sound:
2. Scot. and North England. to speak, especially to preach, in a whining, singsong voice.

Origin of soughs

before 900; (v.) Middle English swoghen, Old English swōgan to make a noise; cognate with Old Saxon swōgan, Old English swēgan, Gothic -swōgjan; (noun) Middle English swow, swo(u)gh, derivati

Examples for soughs

Naught was heard save the droning of the students and the sough of the wind in the forest.

Outside there was a melancholy wail in the sough of the hill-wind.

The air was full of the rush of the waves and the sough of a rising wind.

Every sough of the wind among the brackens was a dread presage.

He could hear the sough of the sea on the beach, far down below him.

If there's a' sough o' cholera,Or typhus,—wha sae gleg as she?

The old man doubtless wanted a sough of peace in his own home.

The sough of the wind and the fleeing cloud of night was all they saw or heard.

The sough of the calm sea could not reach so far; the flies were few; no bird sang.

I knew it was the “sough” of the sea against the sides of the vessel.