Citations:scough

English citations of scough

Verb: "to seize"

• 1894 December, Rudyard Kipling, “McAndrews’ Hymn”, in Scribner’s Magazine, volume 16, number 6, page 670:

  Ye mind my first typhoon? / It scoughed the skipper on his way to jock wi’ the saloon.

• 1922, Talbot Mundy, “Benefit of Doubt”, in Adventure‎^[1], volume 38, page 68:

  The mullah was down among the men already, playing his part, but some of the headmen ran and gave their version, and if it hadn’t been for a half-dozen stalwarts they’d have scoughed Mahommed Babar there and then.