| 释义 |
roughie dial. and slang.|ˈrʌfɪ|
Also roughy.
[f. rough n.1 + -ie, -y6.]
1. A rough or rowdy; a brawler; a hooligan.
1905Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 158/1 Roughy, sb. Sc. Irel. 1 A coarsely made, bullying fellow. Ant. Grose (1790) MS. add. (C.) 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Nov. 33/1 With such a lot of roughies in the hall. 1953Amer. Speech XXVIII. 118 Rough, roughy, n. A carnival roustabout, a manual labourer. 1966W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. iv. 62 Roughie, meaning ‘a coarsely made, bullying fellow’ was used in both Scotland and Ireland. 1971P. Driscoll White Lie Assignment vii. 60, I know a roughie when I see one... He's just one of those blokes who can't stay away from trouble.
2. Austral. In dog- and horse-racing: an outsider.
1934‘S. Rudd’ Green Grey Homestead 155 Those who had lost a wager or two will turn to Bell and say: ‘You knew something about the roughie!’ 1951Cusack & James Come in Spinner 40 He's a roughie so 'e'll go out at long odds. 1958F. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery 14, I might just have a shilling on a roughie. 1973Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 58/2 Punters were reluctant to support him... Consequently Pepper Moss went out as a 12–1 ‘roughie’.
3. Austral. A trick, an unfair practice; esp. in phr. to put a roughie over.
1939K. Tennant Foveaux ii. i. 122 Kelly put a roughie over Charlie to-day. Ibid. iii. ii. 151 ‘They're putting over a roughie at Central,’ the secretary..mentioned casually. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. xv. 265 A roughie, toughie, hottie, crookie, swiftie, smartie will all be heard in male conversation to describe a joke or trick that is either agreeable or disagreeable. 1970R. Beilby No Medals for Aphrodite 269, I bluffed him, put a roughie over him. |