rough-wroughtadj.
/ˈrʌfrɔːt/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌrɔt/, /ˈrəfˌrɑt/ Roughly worked or made; in a preliminary form, unfinished. Also figurative.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty > crude or undeveloped > rough or rude > roughly formed or made
rude1488
rough-hewn1530
rough1561
rough-hewed1563
roughcast1588
rough-wrought?1665
rough and tumble1855
?1665 R. Pratt Notebks. in R. T. Gunther Archit. Sir Roger Pratt (1928) viii. 115 Pavement..in ordinary courses was jointed and layed, it being brought rough-wrought from the quarry at three halfpence per foot.
1783 J. Ledyard Jrnl. Capt. Cook's Last Voy. 77 We found a few copper bracelets and three or four rough-wrought knives.
1836 Rep. Royal Soc. Northern Antiquaries ii. 26 They [sc. certain sorts of stone] are very rarely found in the smooth-wrought, but almost always in the rough-wrought state.
1862 Ladies' Repository Aug. 453/2 On the rough-wrought wooden pier, Lashed by billows half a year.
1920 H. Begbie Life William Booth I. x. 122 This rough-wrought son of sorrow and distress.
1930 R. A. Taylor Invitation to Renaissance Italy v. 113 Fortresslike palaces of rough-wrought stone.
1963 F. Leiber No Great Magic iv, in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Dec. 176/2 I knew Sid must have written those lines himself... They had the unmistakeable rough-wrought Lessingham touch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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