sheugh UK /ʃuːx/US /ʃu/ noun3 •(Ireland, Scotland) A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries. •(Ireland, informal) The Atlantic Ocean; the sea.The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh. •(Scotland, informal) The space between the buttocks.The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse. formssheughs