helbough

Yola

Alternative forms

• helboge

Etymology

From Middle English elbohe, from Old English elnboga, from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô. Cognate with Scots elbuck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛɫˈbɔːɡ/

Noun

helbough

1. elbow

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45