释义 |
rough-spoken, a. [rough adv.] Blunt or rough in speech.
1633Ford Broken H. iv. i, A gallant man at arms is here;..blunt and rough-spoken, Vouchsafing not the fustian of civility. 1815Scott Guy M. xlv, He was..the queerest rough-spoken deevil too that ever ye heard! 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. vi. iv. 180 At last a voice cried out..(I think it was that roughspoken Carvel, the butcher). |