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单词 roughhouse
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roughhousen.adj.

Brit. /ˈrʌfhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌ(h)aʊs/
Forms: 1800s– roughhouse, 1900s– roughouse (irregular).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rough adj., house n.1
Etymology: < rough adj. + house n.1The collocation rough house occurs in 19th-cent. British (but not American) newspapers to describe either a private home or an inn where brawling regularly occurred; compare:1874 Preston Guardian 12 Dec. The defendant had been drinking at the new Inn for three weeks... Mr. Oglethorpe stated that it was a rough house... The prisoner had been convicted frequently for assaults on the police.Perhaps compare also rough house, denoting an establishment for vagrant children (attested in newspapers and journals from the late 1850s; after German Rauhes Haus, the name of a home for vagrant children in Hamburg, founded in 1833 by the German Lutheran theologian J. H. Wichern (1808–81)).
colloquial (originally U.S.).
A. n.
An uproar, a disturbance, a fight; boisterous behaviour, fighting. Also in weakened sense: friendly horseplay.
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society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > a disturbance caused by dissension
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fracas1727
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noration1773
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rumption1802
ruction1809
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tulyie-mulyie1827
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donnybrook1852
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furore1946
shindig1961
1882 G. Stables Cruise of Snowbird xxi. 278 It's in a b'ar's hole you are, and presently the b'ar will be coming home, and then there'll..be five minutes of a rough house down there, I can tell ye.
1895 Harper's Mag. Mar. 540/2 They might be goin' to hev considerable rough house—a fuss, I mean, sir.
1900 Dial. Notes 2 55 Rough-house,..Rough play.
1919 ‘Etienne’ Strange Tales from Fleet 136 A sing-song followed by a ‘rough house’, in which a certain amount of furniture was broken.
1941 Penguin New Writing 2 87 Someone being funny and turnin' off your juice and you keep striking..and wondering why the hell it doesn't strike and flash,..and then seeing the rest laughing and having a rough house for a while.
1973 ‘B. Graeme’ Two & Two make Five xiii. 123 He's smaller and lighter than me; not nearly so useful in a rough house.
2008 C. Dunn Black Ship 291 ‘We had a bit of a roughhouse. He got in a lick or two.’ He touched his cheekbone and winced.
B. adj.
(attributive). That is or resembles a roughhouse; boisterous, violent.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective]
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violentc1384
boistousa1387
outrageousc1390
outraiousc1390
harageous?a1400
hetera1400
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tory-rory1678
plug-ugly1857
radge1857
amok1868
tough1884
roughhouse1896
butch1939
shit-kicking1953
hard-ass1967
tasty1974
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough > rough or boisterous
robustious1548
boisterous1568
rory-tory1683
randy1723
rumgumptious1781
lungeous1787
rowdy dowdy1816
roaritorious1821
riproarious1830
rough and tumble1831
rowdy1832
rowdy-dow1832
tear-brass1880
knockabout1885
rory-cum-tory1893
roughhouse1896
1896 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 5 Feb. 5/2 (heading) A 'rough house' melee in a Third Street saloon.
1906 N.Y. Globe 22 Aug. 6 On that rough-house occasion more force than was necessary was used to eject the Bryanite faction.
1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill ii. 74 Two or three other directors..had put him into rough-house funny plays where he got thrown downstairs or had bricks fall on him.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iv. 240 Mr. Bursely was shoved against the bookcase by Wallace Parker shoving... I didn't like him to see us so rough house._
1973 Times 27 Jan. 7/3 Chelsea can regain some goodwill by attempting to outplay West Ham..without resort to roughhouse rudeness.
2002 R. Cohen By Sword v. xvi. 367 The Frenchman was short and awkward, and his unclassical style so upset Greco that he twice protested to the jury about his opponent's roughhouse tactics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

roughhousev.

Brit. /ˈrʌfhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌ(h)aʊs/
Forms: see roughhouse n. and adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: roughhouse n.
Etymology: < roughhouse n.
slang (originally U.S.).
1. transitive. To handle roughly or violently; to mistreat in a rough manner. Also in weakened sense: to engage (a person) in friendly horseplay.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] > treat violently or roughly
to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE
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attamec1430
ruffle1489
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to shear against the wool1546
rumble1570
finger1572
to pull about1679
misguggle1814
rowdy1825
to jerk around1833
scrag1835
rough1845
hooligan1898
roughhouse1898
savage1899
to rough up1915
to treat 'em rough1918
1898 N.Y. Times 20 Aug. 3/4 Private James Tinan..in company with some companions yesterday 'roughhoused' a peddler and distributed his wares among the crowd.
1903 N.Y. Times 6 Oct. 1 After the rush the classes adjourned to Massachusetts Avenue and began to ‘rough house’ the passing street cars.
1928 Daily Express 4 Sept. 9/5 Harvey as a boxer of exceptional skill should not have allowed West to rush into close quarters and ‘rough-house’ him.
1943 Billboard 10 Apr. 15/3 Ross Wyse Jr. transplanted his vaudeville act..and rough-housed his partner for the usual results.
1994 H. Murkoff et al. Toddler Years (1996) ix. 223/2 Girls are cuddled and cooed to, while boys are roughhoused.
2004 C. Roy Raging Grannies iv. 123 They [sc. the police] grabbed..a young woman and they were roughhousing her off to the side.
2. intransitive. To create an uproar or disturbance; to behave in a boisterous or violent manner; to fight. Also in weakened sense: to engage in friendly horseplay (with someone). Also transitive with it.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > behave violently or use force [verb (intransitive)] > act roughly or boisterously
rounce?a1500
rantipole1650
rowdy1823
roughhouse1900
rowdy-dow1966
1900 Dial. Notes 2 55 Rough-house, to put a room in disorder.
1904 R. L. McCardell Show Girl & Friends 107 They teased him about having to keep him out..if he did not stop rough-housing it.
1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond ix. 239 Somebody has been rough-housing by the look of things.
1929 E. L. Rice Street Scene ii. 167 Rough-housing with your kid brother.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 May 43/2 Police spokesmen said the boys were ‘rough-housing’ on the grass.
1995 D. West Wedding (1996) vii. 59 The puppy, taking her laughter as a signal to play, romped all over her, and for a while they roughhoused together.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Nov. ix. 2/1 Young men hired to entertain and roughhouse with the boys..between the end of school and bedtime.

Derivatives

ˈroughhouser n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous > person
barratorc1440
brawlc1440
outcrier1535
tear-rogue1685
breacher1697
rowdy1814
roughiea1819
roughneck1834
rough1837
soap-lock1840
roughhouser1901
gurrier1936
1901 N.Y. World 31 Jan. 6/4 Cannon..is a hot-blooded Southerner..and as a verbal ‘rough-houser’ has no superiors and few equals in the House.
1951 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Mar. 19/2 Wrestling is outdrawing boxing... Lord Carlton, who poses as a titled Englishman; the Golden Terror, a roughhouser type..have contributed to the success.
2004 T. Downey Last Men Out iii. 84 At the firehouse..he was an officers worst nightmare, a nonstop joker and roughhouser.
ˈroughhousing n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous
boisterousness1589
rough and tumble1810
rowdyism1838
vandemonianism1863
bear play1867
robustiousness1894
push and shove1895
roughhousing1902
1902 Chicago Tribune 18 Jan. 12/6 Ald. Muligitawney an' ladies will lead de grand march at 1 a. m. prompt. No rough housing goes.
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. i. xii. 131 Apart from some rough-housing..the troops found no occasion for any martial activity.
2000 P. Fleiss Sweet Dreams v. 88 Roughhousing and friendly wrestling are a terrific way for both parent and child to get some exercise in the house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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