teugh

English

Adjective

teugh (comparative more teugh, superlative most teugh)

1. (Northumbria, Scotland) tough, stubborn
   • 1868, John Christopher Atkinson, A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical‎^[1], A. and C. Black, page 526:

     Teugh, adj. (Pr. of the eu much as in Teuflt). Tough.
     "With cordes enewe and ropys Teugh
     The Jues felle my limmes out-droghe
     For that I was not mete enoghe
     Unto the bore"

   • 1897, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world, Volume 8‎^[2], Century, page 6259:

     A dialectical (Scottish) form of tough.
     "Unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forbye being teugh in the upper-leather."

Related terms

• teuch
• teughly
• tough