sheugh

noun

1. (Ireland, Scotland)A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.

   “The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).”

2. (Northern-Ireland, Scotland, colloquial)The space between the buttocks.

   “The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.”

3. (Ireland, colloquial)The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.

   “The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.”