different between vugh vs eugh

English

Noun

vugh (plural vughs)

1. Alternative form of vug
   • 1917, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Mineral resources, Issues 26-35, page 106,

     Several years later larger vughs at lower levels were met with containing a much greater number of stalactites. One vugh as large as a room contained so many that it was difficult to move about in it.

   • 1955, Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Volume 30, page 60,

     The explanation of the not infrequent pairs of hemispherical concretionary masses with polished cross-sections might lie in the miners carefully extracting the rounded and bulbous masses of fluorite projecting from vugh linings.

   • 1957, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings, page 107,

     The largest patch seen, which is about 2 cm. across, is a milky white crystal almost filling a small vugh in otherwise barren white quartz from the 3-level.

Related terms

• vughy

Cornish

Noun

vugh

1. Soft mutation of bugh.

English

Etymology 1

See yew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?/

Noun

eugh (plural eughs)

1. Obsolete spelling of yew
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens

     you must take such Things, as are Greene all Winter; Holly; Ivy; Bayes; Juniper; Cipresse Trees; Eugh; […]

   • almost join'd the Horns of the tough Eugh

References

eugh in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?x], [?x], [??]

Interjection

eugh

1. Alternative form of ugh

Anagrams

• e-hug, gehu, huge