Roughname

• 1

  A surname.

roughadj/ɹʌf/

• 1

  Not smooth; uneven.

  • rough hands
  • rough stone
• 2

  Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

  • a rough copy
  • a rough estimate
• 3

  Turbulent.

  • rough sea
  • rough water
• 4

  Difficult; trying.

  • Being a teenager nowadays can be rough.
• 5

  Crude; unrefined.

  • His manners are a bit rough, but he means well.
• 6

  Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.

  • "You find us a bit rough," apologized the young man, with something of contempt towards his surroundings. "We weren't expecting visitors."
• 7

  Having socio-economic problems, hence possibly dangerous.

  • the rough bit of town
• 8

  Violent; not careful or subtle.

  • rough words
  • This box has been through some rough handling.

roughnoun/ɹʌf/

• 1

  The unmowed part of a golf course.

• 2

  A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

  • In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs, who had just rushed out of Fleet Street with still wet newspapers and staring placards. "Dreadful catastrophe!" they bawled one to the other down Wellington Street. "Fighting at Weybridge!"
• 3

  ball-gamescricketgamesA scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.

• 4

  The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.

• 5

  A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.

• 6

  obsoleteBoisterous weather.

  • In calms you fish; in roughs use songs and dances.
• 7

  A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.

roughverb/ɹʌf/

• 1

  To create in an approximate form.

  • Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.
  • On the floor, one beside the other, stood two amphoræ of veined marble-like limestone; one a huge vase 2 feet high and more than 6 feet round, finished and perfect, with two splendid spiral bands; and the other a smaller vase, of the same type, but only just roughed out of the block.
• 2

  boxinggovernmenthobbiesTo break the rules by being excessively violent.

  • […] roughing is not a part of the sport, and will not be tolerated. Referees will not permit unfair practices that may cause injury to a contestant, and are held strictly responsible for enforcing these rules.
• 3

  hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleTo commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.

• 4

  To render rough; to roughen.

• 5

  To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.

  • To Rough Horses, a word in familiar use among the dragoons to signify the act of breaking in horses, so as to adapt them to military purposes.
• 6

  To endure primitive conditions.

  • to rough it
  • “[…]Oh, but my husband is never so happy as when he is travelling. He likes roughing it. . . . My husband. . . . My husband. . . .”
• 7

  To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.

roughadv/ɹʌf/

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  In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

  • I will warrant they prove such roaring boys as I knew when I served under Lumford and Goring, [...] —sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. Ah! those merry days are gone.