| 单词 | rough skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrough skin rough skin n. U.S. now historical a roughneck, a thug; spec. (usually with capital initials) a member of a mid-19th cent. Baltimore gang supporting the American Party and renowned for its violent behaviour; usually in plural.Cf. know-nothing n. 2, plug-ugly n. 1. ΚΠ 1840 Jamestown (N.Y.) Jrnl. 28 Oct. 2/6 Some hardy roughskins from the pine knots up the Alleghany were sauntering up town. 1859 in Baltimore City Contested Election (Ma. Elections Comm.) (1860) 42 Two of the Rough Skins having one of the workmen by the collar, [they] brought them up Lancaster Street. 1914 Catholic Church in U.S.A. III. 26 The names of the Knownothing clubs indicated the desperate character of their members. Among them were the Roughskins, the Blacksnakes, [etc.]. 2004 F. Towers Urban South & Coming of Civil War iv. 142 In 1859, Rough Skins aboard a Chesapeake Bay steamer threw free blacks overboard for entering a cabin that the rowdies believed was for whites only. < as lemmas |
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