"ough" meaning in English

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  "pos": "intj",
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          "ref": "1856, John Esten Cooke, The Last of the Foresters:",
          "text": "\"Ough! ough! ough!\" groaned the old woman; \"he wants to go, away from the nest where he was warmed, and nursed, and brought up.",
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          "ref": "1874, H. S. Caswell, The Path of Duty, and Other Stories:",
          "text": "We strove to extort from him the cause of this ebullition of passion, but he only shook his head in reply to our questions, and uttered a guttural \"ough.\"",
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          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:",
          "text": "Ough! A door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary.",
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        "The sound of a grunt or groan or cough."
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          "grunt",
          "grunt#English"
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          "groan",
          "groan#English"
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          "cough",
          "cough#English"
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        {
          "word": "ouch"
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        {
          "word": "oof"
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          "ref": "1856, John Esten Cooke, The Last of the Foresters:",
          "text": "\"Ough! ough! ough!\" groaned the old woman; \"he wants to go, away from the nest where he was warmed, and nursed, and brought up.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1874, H. S. Caswell, The Path of Duty, and Other Stories:",
          "text": "We strove to extort from him the cause of this ebullition of passion, but he only shook his head in reply to our questions, and uttered a guttural \"ough.\"",
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          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:",
          "text": "Ough! A door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary.",
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        "The sound of a grunt or groan or cough."
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