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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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¶STOUGH, n.? The context suggests the meaning “a false report, a fib”. [? stux]Kcd. 1897 Bards Ags. (Reid) 155:
We ken there [sic] a sough, though maybe a stough, That we in a sheuch flang royal Malcolm.
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