sheuch

/ ʃuːx; ʃʌx /

noun

1. dialect.
   a ditch or trough

Word History and Origins

Origin of sheuch¹

dialect variant of sough ²

Example Sentences

Sheuch, grandson of the Freedom Party's co-founder, is a political heir of far-right leader Joerg Haider and rose to power when Haider died in a 2008 car crash.

From Reuters

Sheuch, Sheugh, shōōh, or shyuh, n.

From Project Gutenberg

"Has he to be put in the heather, and die maybe in a sheuch like a braxy ewe."

From Project Gutenberg

There had come over all my spirit a kind of dwam, so that at times my head seemed as if it were stuffed with wool; what mattered was of no account, even if it were a tinker's death in the sheuch.

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To SHEUCH, v. to place plants in the earth before they are planted.

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