hogh

English

Alternative forms

• hough, how (dialectal and in placenames)

Etymology

From Middle English hough (“promontory”), from Old English hōh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: hoe

Noun

hogh (plural hoghs)

1. (obsolete) A hill; a cliff.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The westerne Hogh, besprincled with the gore Of mighty Goëmot

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hogh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish hoch, from Proto-Brythonic *hux, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₁- (“swine”).

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [hɔːx]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [hoːʰ]

Noun

hogh m (plural hohes)

1. pig

Synonyms

• porhel

Related terms

• mogh

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hogh

1. Alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”)

Etymology 2

Noun

hogh

1. Alternative form of hough (“promontory”)