rough and tumbleadv.n.adj.

Brit.

/ˌrʌf (ə)n(d) ˈtʌmbl/, U.S.

/ˌrəf ən ˈtəmb(ə)l/

Forms: 1800s– rough and tumble, 1800s– rough an' tumble, 1900s– rough 'n tumble, 1900s– rough 'n' tumble, 1900s– rough n' tumble.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rough n.¹, and conj.¹, tumble n.

Etymology: < rough n.¹ + and conj.¹ + tumble n. Compare slightly earlier rough and tumbling n.

Originally U.S. Boxing slang.

A. adv.

In the manner of a rough and tumble fight or scrap (see sense B. 1a); (also) roughly; without rules.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adverb] > informally

informally1594

familiarly1757

rough and tumblea1798

a1798 S. J. Honeywood Poems (1801) 95 They took it rough and tumble, And he who run, or thrice was flung, Was 'blig'd by law to humble.

1818 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. U.S. 131 I understand the question is generally asked, will you fight fair, or take it rough and tumble?

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 270 A bit of clear tussle with a redhot Mohawk or so—rough an' tumble—would be a relief to me.

1893 in G. Dickson & G. M. Adam Hist. Upper Canada Coll. xii. 129 There was a verbal agreement between the three contestants that they should fight rough and tumble, but without kicking.

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. viii. 178 Mr. Allen might have eaten by the rules but Cliffert and I went at it rough-and-tumble with no holds barred.

2008 A. Rooney Ruanaidh i. ii. 15 They could box and they could fight rough and tumble.

B. n.

a. Originally: a form of fighting in which no rules are observed and no tactics barred (now historical). Later in weakened sense: playful roughhousing.

ΘΚΠ

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

1810 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 447 [Wheeling, near Pittsburgh] The rule of rough and tumble; a kind of combat in which it is lawful for the combatants to peel the skull, tear out the eyes, or smooth away the nose!

1819 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 85 The English reader knows what fair fighting is, but can have little idea of rough and tumble.

1846 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. xii. 65 I will use no unfair method of biting, or gouging, or worse practice, common in what is called rough-and-tumble.

1855 H. A. Murray Lands of Slave & Free (1857) xi. 145 ‘Rough-and-tumble’..consists of clawing, scratching, kicking, hair-pulling, and every other atrocity.

1906 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 26 4 This rough and tumble is not suitable for an athletic competition: it is too dangerous and too undisciplined.

1964 C. Chaplin My Autobiogr. ix. 146 I thought they [sc. the Keystone Comedies] were a crude mélange of rough and tumble.

1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 737 Sporadic attempts were made to suppress ‘rough-and-tumble’. Virginia's tidewater legislators..in 1772 added a..prohibition against ‘gouging, plucking or putting out an eye, biting, kicking or stomping’.

1999 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Apr. 70/2 Most girls are drawn to Barbies and the majority of their games are based on role play, whereas boys favour guns and rough and tumble.

b. As a count noun. Originally: a rough, unregulated fight (now historical). Later in weakened sense: an instance of boisterous behaviour; a scrap. Also figurative. Cf. free-for-all n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight > in which anyone or everyone joins

battle royal1672

free fight1729

knock-down (and) drag-out1809

rough and tumble1821

free-for-all1874

go-as-you-please1880

1821 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 24 494 The Coalheaver..closed with him at once for a rough-and-tumble.

1830 S. P. Holbrook Sketches vii. 161 A couple of Wrestlers, striving after the occidental method of a Kentuckian rough and tumble.

1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain viii. 103 He had been successful in his rough and tumble with the Elmoran.

1910 J. Driscoll Ringcraft 17 This boy and I were always coming into conflict. We had three or four rough and tumbles, of which I had the better.

1952 R. C. Hutchinson Recoll. of Journey (1982) i. 9 He..would always comfort me when the others had hurt me in a rough-and-tumble.

1957 J. Osborne & A. Creighton Epit. for George Dillon (1960) 175 Oh, there's nothing I enjoy more than a good old intellectual rough and tumble.

1974 E. E. Maccoby & C. N. Jacklin Psychol. of Sex Differences ii. vi. 205 It is sometimes difficult to distinguish playful rough-and-tumble from aggression.

2003 D. Menadue Positive ix. 95 I hated contact sports and getting into rough and tumbles with other boys.

2. Rough, unpredictable, or adventurous existence; challenging or chaotic activity; the hurly-burly of something.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > haphazard or random

rough and tumbling1808

rough and tumble1840

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 92 The old brig..in which I had spent nearly a year, and got the first rough and tumble of a sea-life.

1884 J. R. Lowell Democracy (1887) 34 There is more rough and tumble in the American democracy than is altogether agreeable to people of sensitive nerves and refined habits.

1947 Rotarian Feb. 48/2 In these pages..is that commonsense without which, in the rough and tumble of democracy, would-be leaders perish.

1961 W. Brown Bedeviled 65 Norma was Carlotta's protector from the rough and tumble of school life.

1990 P. Taylor See how they Run viii. 195 His record at the rough-and-tumble of electoral politics was much spottier.

2005 J. Flanagan Ruins of Gorlan iii. 23 We'll soon help young George overcome his shyness. Nothing like the rough and tumble of Scribeschool for that.

C. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of a rough and tumble; characterized by rough informality or disregard for the usual rules; of the character of a free-for-all; chaotic, disorderly. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective]

troublec1374

misorderlya1568

unorderly1578

luxate1597

incomposed1608

methodless1609

tumultuary1609

unordered1621

disorderly1632

higgledy-piggledy1676

rantum-scantum1695

throughother1720

rough and tumble1818

ramshackle1820

skimble-skamble1826

ahoo1828

disordinate1840

disorganic1841

ramshackly1883

rantum-scootum1885

tumultuarious1895

ragtime1917

inchoate1922

higgledya1953

shambolic1970

1818 Jrnl. of Times (Baltimore) 28 Nov. 192/1 Jackson, if a common expression may be pardoned, has had a rough and tumble controversy with the Governor of Georgia.

1823 Amer. Farmer 12 Dec. 304/3 The clodhopper would stand about the same chance..as would a..dandy, in a rough and tumble fight, with a half-horse-half-alligator Kentucky man.

1832 New-Eng. Mag. Apr. 318 The professors of the rough-and-tumble style of eloquence..indulge themselves with scurrilous personalities against their opponents.

1899 E. Callow Old London Taverns i. 3 Of late years..the character of the business changed; but there was always a more or less rough-and-tumble air about the place.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 874/4 The hill people and the valley people..are not far apart in this rough-and-tumble country.

1950 Esquire Feb. 116/4 The bitter, rough-and-tumble scramble of getting to the top in the oil business.

2003 J. R. Lennon Mailman i. v. 234 They think..I'm not going to be able to hack the rough-and-tumble post-Soviet life.

2. Of a person: that participates in rough and tumble (in various senses); violent, disorderly; disregarding rules or convention.

ΘΚΠ

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

1831 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1909) II. 440 The rough and tumble old fellows, Bacons, Miltons, and Burkes don't wire-draw.

1848 B. D. Walsh in tr. Aristophanes Comedies 157 (note) The victories of..wrestlers, boxers, and rough-and-tumble gentlemen.

1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner iii. 30 The rough-and-tumble fighters all clinch.

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xi. 178 Robbins, a good rough-and-tumble reporter, but lacking the delicate touch.

1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway ii. 14 He trained us to be rough-and-tumble managers.

1995 Smithsonian Apr. 91/2 The phrase ‘rough and tumble engineers’ was used in an old farmer's manual to describe men who could fix anything with a little spit and baling wire.

2004 Parents Feb. 38/1 Scratch-resistant lenses..are prudent for rough-and-tumble kids.

3. Rough; roughly made, makeshift.

ΘΚΠ

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

1855 New Eng. Farmer Sept. 427/1 A practical man, one thoroughly schooled in the rough and tumble business of drawing rocks and stumps.

c1912 R. Kipling Unqualified Pilot in Kipling Reader for Upper Grades 25 They heaved up their rough and tumble anchor and made after a big..four-masted sailing ship.

1970 E. J. Marsh Inshore Craft Great Brit. I. ii. 39 The sixerns fished from stations conveniently situated to the grounds, the men living in rough and tumble ‘lodges’.

1999 Independent on Sunday 22 Aug. (Culture section) 1/2 Blair Witch knockoffs, sequels and studio horror movies tailored to look like the independent, rough-and-tumble original.

4. Forming a confused mass or group; exuberant, disordered.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > jumbled

hotchpotch1556

jumbled1611

mishmash1652

shuffled1683

confused1776

rough and tumble1858

jumbly1864

higgledy-piggledy1866

mincemeaty1870

deurmekaar1871

humble-jumbled1940

higgledya1953

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 504/2 Dare-devil impudence of rough-and-tumble vegetation.

1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey (1886) 49 I..found..another marish bottom among rough-and-tumble hills.

1992 Harper's Mag. Sept. 16/2 We whites..gained from the rough-and-tumble mix of cultures.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rough and tumble
释义	rough and tumbleadv.n.adj. Brit. /ˌrʌf (ə)n(d) ˈtʌmbl/, U.S. /ˌrəf ən ˈtəmb(ə)l/ Forms: 1800s– rough and tumble, 1800s– rough an' tumble, 1900s– rough 'n tumble, 1900s– rough 'n' tumble, 1900s– rough n' tumble. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rough n.¹, and conj.¹, tumble n. Etymology: < rough n.¹ + and conj.¹ + tumble n. Compare slightly earlier rough and tumbling n. Originally U.S. Boxing slang. A. adv. In the manner of a rough and tumble fight or scrap (see sense B. 1a); (also) roughly; without rules. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adverb] > informally informally1594 familiarly1757 rough and tumblea1798 a1798 S. J. Honeywood Poems (1801) 95 They took it rough and tumble, And he who run, or thrice was flung, Was 'blig'd by law to humble. 1818 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. U.S. 131 I understand the question is generally asked, will you fight fair, or take it rough and tumble? 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 270 A bit of clear tussle with a redhot Mohawk or so—rough an' tumble—would be a relief to me. 1893 in G. Dickson & G. M. Adam Hist. Upper Canada Coll. xii. 129 There was a verbal agreement between the three contestants that they should fight rough and tumble, but without kicking. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. viii. 178 Mr. Allen might have eaten by the rules but Cliffert and I went at it rough-and-tumble with no holds barred. 2008 A. Rooney Ruanaidh i. ii. 15 They could box and they could fight rough and tumble. B. n. 1. a. Originally: a form of fighting in which no rules are observed and no tactics barred (now historical). Later in weakened sense: playful roughhousing. ΘΚΠ 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 1810 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 447 [Wheeling, near Pittsburgh] The rule of rough and tumble; a kind of combat in which it is lawful for the combatants to peel the skull, tear out the eyes, or smooth away the nose! 1819 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 85 The English reader knows what fair fighting is, but can have little idea of rough and tumble. 1846 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. xii. 65 I will use no unfair method of biting, or gouging, or worse practice, common in what is called rough-and-tumble. 1855 H. A. Murray Lands of Slave & Free (1857) xi. 145 ‘Rough-and-tumble’..consists of clawing, scratching, kicking, hair-pulling, and every other atrocity. 1906 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 26 4 This rough and tumble is not suitable for an athletic competition: it is too dangerous and too undisciplined. 1964 C. Chaplin My Autobiogr. ix. 146 I thought they [sc. the Keystone Comedies] were a crude mélange of rough and tumble. 1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 737 Sporadic attempts were made to suppress ‘rough-and-tumble’. Virginia's tidewater legislators..in 1772 added a..prohibition against ‘gouging, plucking or putting out an eye, biting, kicking or stomping’. 1999 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Apr. 70/2 Most girls are drawn to Barbies and the majority of their games are based on role play, whereas boys favour guns and rough and tumble. b. As a count noun. Originally: a rough, unregulated fight (now historical). Later in weakened sense: an instance of boisterous behaviour; a scrap. Also figurative. Cf. free-for-all n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight > in which anyone or everyone joins battle royal1672 free fight1729 knock-down (and) drag-out1809 rough and tumble1821 free-for-all1874 go-as-you-please1880 1821 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 24 494 The Coalheaver..closed with him at once for a rough-and-tumble. 1830 S. P. Holbrook Sketches vii. 161 A couple of Wrestlers, striving after the occidental method of a Kentuckian rough and tumble. 1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain viii. 103 He had been successful in his rough and tumble with the Elmoran. 1910 J. Driscoll Ringcraft 17 This boy and I were always coming into conflict. We had three or four rough and tumbles, of which I had the better. 1952 R. C. Hutchinson Recoll. of Journey (1982) i. 9 He..would always comfort me when the others had hurt me in a rough-and-tumble. 1957 J. Osborne & A. Creighton Epit. for George Dillon (1960) 175 Oh, there's nothing I enjoy more than a good old intellectual rough and tumble. 1974 E. E. Maccoby & C. N. Jacklin Psychol. of Sex Differences ii. vi. 205 It is sometimes difficult to distinguish playful rough-and-tumble from aggression. 2003 D. Menadue Positive ix. 95 I hated contact sports and getting into rough and tumbles with other boys. 2. Rough, unpredictable, or adventurous existence; challenging or chaotic activity; the hurly-burly of something. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > haphazard or random rough and tumbling1808 rough and tumble1840 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 92 The old brig..in which I had spent nearly a year, and got the first rough and tumble of a sea-life. 1884 J. R. Lowell Democracy (1887) 34 There is more rough and tumble in the American democracy than is altogether agreeable to people of sensitive nerves and refined habits. 1947 Rotarian Feb. 48/2 In these pages..is that commonsense without which, in the rough and tumble of democracy, would-be leaders perish. 1961 W. Brown Bedeviled 65 Norma was Carlotta's protector from the rough and tumble of school life. 1990 P. Taylor See how they Run viii. 195 His record at the rough-and-tumble of electoral politics was much spottier. 2005 J. Flanagan Ruins of Gorlan iii. 23 We'll soon help young George overcome his shyness. Nothing like the rough and tumble of Scribeschool for that. C. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of a rough and tumble; characterized by rough informality or disregard for the usual rules; of the character of a free-for-all; chaotic, disorderly. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] troublec1374 misorderlya1568 unorderly1578 luxate1597 incomposed1608 methodless1609 tumultuary1609 unordered1621 disorderly1632 higgledy-piggledy1676 rantum-scantum1695 throughother1720 rough and tumble1818 ramshackle1820 skimble-skamble1826 ahoo1828 disordinate1840 disorganic1841 ramshackly1883 rantum-scootum1885 tumultuarious1895 ragtime1917 inchoate1922 higgledya1953 shambolic1970 1818 Jrnl. of Times (Baltimore) 28 Nov. 192/1 Jackson, if a common expression may be pardoned, has had a rough and tumble controversy with the Governor of Georgia. 1823 Amer. Farmer 12 Dec. 304/3 The clodhopper would stand about the same chance..as would a..dandy, in a rough and tumble fight, with a half-horse-half-alligator Kentucky man. 1832 New-Eng. Mag. Apr. 318 The professors of the rough-and-tumble style of eloquence..indulge themselves with scurrilous personalities against their opponents. 1899 E. Callow Old London Taverns i. 3 Of late years..the character of the business changed; but there was always a more or less rough-and-tumble air about the place. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 874/4 The hill people and the valley people..are not far apart in this rough-and-tumble country. 1950 Esquire Feb. 116/4 The bitter, rough-and-tumble scramble of getting to the top in the oil business. 2003 J. R. Lennon Mailman i. v. 234 They think..I'm not going to be able to hack the rough-and-tumble post-Soviet life. 2. Of a person: that participates in rough and tumble (in various senses); violent, disorderly; disregarding rules or convention. ΘΚΠ 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 1831 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1909) II. 440 The rough and tumble old fellows, Bacons, Miltons, and Burkes don't wire-draw. 1848 B. D. Walsh in tr. Aristophanes Comedies 157 (note) The victories of..wrestlers, boxers, and rough-and-tumble gentlemen. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner iii. 30 The rough-and-tumble fighters all clinch. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xi. 178 Robbins, a good rough-and-tumble reporter, but lacking the delicate touch. 1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway ii. 14 He trained us to be rough-and-tumble managers. 1995 Smithsonian Apr. 91/2 The phrase ‘rough and tumble engineers’ was used in an old farmer's manual to describe men who could fix anything with a little spit and baling wire. 2004 Parents Feb. 38/1 Scratch-resistant lenses..are prudent for rough-and-tumble kids. 3. Rough; roughly made, makeshift. ΘΚΠ 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 1855 New Eng. Farmer Sept. 427/1 A practical man, one thoroughly schooled in the rough and tumble business of drawing rocks and stumps. c1912 R. Kipling Unqualified Pilot in Kipling Reader for Upper Grades 25 They heaved up their rough and tumble anchor and made after a big..four-masted sailing ship. 1970 E. J. Marsh Inshore Craft Great Brit. I. ii. 39 The sixerns fished from stations conveniently situated to the grounds, the men living in rough and tumble ‘lodges’. 1999 Independent on Sunday 22 Aug. (Culture section) 1/2 Blair Witch knockoffs, sequels and studio horror movies tailored to look like the independent, rough-and-tumble original. 4. Forming a confused mass or group; exuberant, disordered. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > jumbled hotchpotch1556 jumbled1611 mishmash1652 shuffled1683 confused1776 rough and tumble1858 jumbly1864 higgledy-piggledy1866 mincemeaty1870 deurmekaar1871 humble-jumbled1940 higgledya1953 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 504/2 Dare-devil impudence of rough-and-tumble vegetation. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey (1886) 49 I..found..another marish bottom among rough-and-tumble hills. 1992 Harper's Mag. Sept. 16/2 We whites..gained from the rough-and-tumble mix of cultures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.n.adj.a1798
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