Meaning of sheugh | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
   Ireland, Scotland
2. The space between the buttocks.
   Northern-Ireland, Scotland, colloquial
3. The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.
   Ireland, colloquial

Examples

“The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).”

“The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.”

“The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.”

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