different between vughy vs vugh

English

Etymology

vugh +? -y

Adjective

vughy (comparative more vughy, superlative most vughy)

1. Containing vughs, vuggy.
   • 1929, New Zealand. Parliament, House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Volume 2, page 20,

     Owing to soft slidy country rock at the beginning, and hard vughy quartz in the reef, very great difficulty was experienced in putting down this hole.

   • 1990, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Volume 2, page 996,

     On Mount Gee, the 20 to 50 m thick, dense to highly vughy sequence is characterised by discontinuous, irregular, banded to rhythmically layered quartz, specular hematite and siliceous reddish brown hematitic 'siltstone'.

   • 2002, W. R. Dearman, J. R. Coffey, An engineering zoning map of the Permian limestones of NE England, in James S. Griffiths (editor), Mapping in Engineering Geology, page 201,

     Fig. 4. Autobrecciated and vughy limestones from the north-west wall of Houghton Cutting (355507) on the A690 trunk road; (a) typical vughy autobrecciated limestone; (b) localized development of autobrecciation in bedded limestone.

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.