roughneckn.

Brit.

/ˈrʌfnɛk/, U.S.

/ˈrəfˌnɛk/

Forms: see rough adj. and neck n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rough adj., neck n.¹

Etymology: < rough adj. + neck n.¹

colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).

1. A person with rough manners; an uncultivated or uneducated person; (also) a quarrelsome troublemaker, a rowdy. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person

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Huna1744

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Philistine1825

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yapc1894

lowbrow1901

meatball1937

primitive1967

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > raising outcry

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous > person

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roughneck1834

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roughhouser1901

gurrier1936

1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life iv. 58 You may be called a drunken dog by some of the clean shirt and silk stocking gentry, but the real rough necks will style you a jovial fellow.

1899 C. L. Cullen Tales of Ex-tanks 352 The rough neck behind the bar gave me the..glare.

1915 Atlantic Monthly June 779/2 Believe me, the truly happy and contented people are the lowbrows and the roughnecks.

1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning i. iii. 51 The water-front was a perfect rat-hole for..every brand of rough-neck and dope-smuggler and crook.

1940 E. N. Teall Putting Words to Work i. xxi. 147 The business man will say that if a university can afford to write such letters there is no need for a roughneck like him to bother.

1959 ‘J. Christopher’ Scent of White Poppies vi. 91 She has me tabbed for a roughneck... She has enough on with civilizing you, without having me to cope with as well.

1960 C. P. Snow Affair iv. 45 The moral roughneck, the mauvais coucheur, often seemed..to have a dignity and elevation not granted to the rest of us.

2008 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 2 Sept. (Features section) 13 The New York Irish invented the idea of the political machine, using the violent gangs of roughnecks on the streets to enforce their will.

a. Originally: an ironworker; (in later use also) a person engaged in any hard, rough, or poorly paid work; a labourer.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > ironworker or blacksmith

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1901 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 262 In place of ‘Rough Necks’ it is to-day bridgemen and structural iron workers,..all mechanics of the highest skill.

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 17 Aug. 7/7 His [sc. Sam Parks's] stated income amounts to union wages from his union of ‘rough-necks’, as the iron-workers call themselves, as walking delegate.

1922 H. L. Foster Adventures Trop. Tramp i. 5 The host of swearing, fighting, drinking, sweating, working roughnecks who built the [Panama] canal.

1936 L. B. Smith Dude Ranches & Ponies xii. 226 Cowboys, wranglers, cooks, packers, guides, irrigation hands, chore boys and such are all roughnecks, as far as the ranch goes.

1941 E. P. O'Donnell Great Big Doorstep iv. 59 ‘Are you a rough-neck?’ ‘Yes. I'm in the bull-gang so far. I'm trying to get in the office.’

1972 D. Haston In High Places i. 14 Jimmy was twenty-eight, and already a qualified architect; we were seventeen-year-old roughnecks.

2004 J. Rasenberger High Steel x. 261 Reynolds was a self-proclaimed roughneck who had been working on bridges since he was 15.

b. A worker on an oil rig, esp. a labourer on the floor of a rig.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in oil industry > [noun] > types of

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1913 Rotarian Apr. 26/2 Up to that time I had been an oil well ‘roughneck’ contractor.

1917 Dial. Notes 4 421 Roughneck, a man who works about an oil derrick.

1932 Amer. Speech 7 270 Roughneck, the regular term for a member of a driller's crew on a rotary rig; not applied to the driller.

1948 Chicago Tribune 5 Dec. i. 14/3 Among today's roughnecks you'll find college men—petroleum engineers and geologists.

1958 Times 15 May 14/6 Unskilled members of drilling crews are technically classified as ‘roughnecks’.

1977 Time 14 Mar. 37/1 The centre of the rig's activities is the mud-slicked drill floor, where half a dozen roughnecks struggle day and night with heavy chains and power-driven winches.

2005 B. A. Gow Roughnecks, Rock Bits & Rigs iii. 66/1 In 1946–47 a roughneck working in the Lloydminster field was being paid six dollars for an eight-hour shift.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, with sense ‘rough; rowdy; uncultivated; (also) of or characteristic of a roughneck; that is a roughneck’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > [adjective]

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rowdy dowdy1816

rowdy1835

roughneck1906

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective]

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rustical?1532

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough

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to treat 'em rough1962

1906 Leather Worker's Jrnl. May 483/1 Not very many months ago this same brother had some of the ‘roughneck’ jobs.

1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vii. 288 Killed off in a sudden manner by his rough-neck parent.

1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 7 The others were rough-neck singers a long ways from home.

1976 R. Sanders in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 209 The roughneck genius of a Walt Whitman.

1983 Listener 28 July 33/3 She is the high-strung daughter of New England gentry, he the roughneck son of New England working class.

2009 D. L. McKinsey Oh by Jingo xiii. 93 Neil got a promise of a good roughneck job.

C2. attributive. Frequently in form ruffneck. Of or designating (a performer of) a type of ragga music which typically features a particularly fast rhythm, harsh vocals, and lyrics dealing with gun culture and crime.

ΚΠ

1990 Brian & Tony (Ram Dancehall) in rec.music.misc (Usenet Newsgroup) 7 Nov. Most of the Dancehall DJ's I know are into hardcore Roughneck tunes.

1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 14 Apr. 11 The mighty Sony Records have snapped up Ranks, Super Cat, Tiger and Mad Cobra in advance of what they hope is an international slide towards the ruffneck rhythms of Kingston Jamaica.

2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) iv. 78 Calls himself a bona fide singer now, DJ no longer. Had to, really. There was all these young ruffneck artists coming up badder than him.

2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 108/3 Once they made terrifying, roughneck jungle, now Spring Heel Jack make terrifying, roughneck free improv.

Derivatives

ˈroughnecking n. (originally) the action of behaving like a roughneck; (later) the action of working as a roughneck.

ΚΠ

1912 Fifth Year Rec., Class of 1906 (Princeton Univ.) 102 Overawed by your suggestions for reunions of ‘less vulgarity and “rough-necking”’.

1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Feb. 3/1 About 200 a year are beginners ready to try roughnecking, the industry's term for the beginners' job.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 8 Oct. 6 At first Lowe raised the cash for climbing trips by bouts of roughnecking in the Wyoming oilfields.

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

单词	roughneck
释义	roughneckn. Brit. /ˈrʌfnɛk/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌnɛk/ Forms: see rough adj. and neck n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rough adj., neck n.¹ Etymology: < rough adj. + neck n.¹ colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). 1. A person with rough manners; an uncultivated or uneducated person; (also) a quarrelsome troublemaker, a rowdy. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person runt1602 home-bred1609 pork1645 Huna1744 savage1762 heathen1817 Philistine1825 stringy-bark1833 roughneck1834 yahoo1861 yapc1894 lowbrow1901 meatball1937 primitive1967 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > raising outcry barratorc1440 brawlc1440 outcrier1535 breacher1697 rowdy1814 roughiea1819 roughneck1834 rough1837 blood-tub1853 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 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life iv. 58 You may be called a drunken dog by some of the clean shirt and silk stocking gentry, but the real rough necks will style you a jovial fellow. 1899 C. L. Cullen Tales of Ex-tanks 352 The rough neck behind the bar gave me the..glare. 1915 Atlantic Monthly June 779/2 Believe me, the truly happy and contented people are the lowbrows and the roughnecks. 1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning i. iii. 51 The water-front was a perfect rat-hole for..every brand of rough-neck and dope-smuggler and crook. 1940 E. N. Teall Putting Words to Work i. xxi. 147 The business man will say that if a university can afford to write such letters there is no need for a roughneck like him to bother. 1959 ‘J. Christopher’ Scent of White Poppies vi. 91 She has me tabbed for a roughneck... She has enough on with civilizing you, without having me to cope with as well. 1960 C. P. Snow Affair iv. 45 The moral roughneck, the mauvais coucheur, often seemed..to have a dignity and elevation not granted to the rest of us. 2008 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 2 Sept. (Features section) 13 The New York Irish invented the idea of the political machine, using the violent gangs of roughnecks on the streets to enforce their will. 2. a. Originally: an ironworker; (in later use also) a person engaged in any hard, rough, or poorly paid work; a labourer. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > ironworker or blacksmith ironsmithOE blacksmith1248 smithy man1308 ferrerc1380 ironworkerc1450 vulcanist?1586 smug1600 Vulcan1603 fireworker1608 iron man1610 roughneck1901 1901 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 262 In place of ‘Rough Necks’ it is to-day bridgemen and structural iron workers,..all mechanics of the highest skill. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 17 Aug. 7/7 His [sc. Sam Parks's] stated income amounts to union wages from his union of ‘rough-necks’, as the iron-workers call themselves, as walking delegate. 1922 H. L. Foster Adventures Trop. Tramp i. 5 The host of swearing, fighting, drinking, sweating, working roughnecks who built the [Panama] canal. 1936 L. B. Smith Dude Ranches & Ponies xii. 226 Cowboys, wranglers, cooks, packers, guides, irrigation hands, chore boys and such are all roughnecks, as far as the ranch goes. 1941 E. P. O'Donnell Great Big Doorstep iv. 59 ‘Are you a rough-neck?’ ‘Yes. I'm in the bull-gang so far. I'm trying to get in the office.’ 1972 D. Haston In High Places i. 14 Jimmy was twenty-eight, and already a qualified architect; we were seventeen-year-old roughnecks. 2004 J. Rasenberger High Steel x. 261 Reynolds was a self-proclaimed roughneck who had been working on bridges since he was 15. b. A worker on an oil rig, esp. a labourer on the floor of a rig. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in oil industry > [noun] > types of scout1883 roustabout1886 pipeliner1887 tongsman1891 tool-dresser1896 fisherman1903 roughneck1913 stabber1922 toolie1932 tool-pusher1932 doodlebug1933 rigger1974 1913 Rotarian Apr. 26/2 Up to that time I had been an oil well ‘roughneck’ contractor. 1917 Dial. Notes 4 421 Roughneck, a man who works about an oil derrick. 1932 Amer. Speech 7 270 Roughneck, the regular term for a member of a driller's crew on a rotary rig; not applied to the driller. 1948 Chicago Tribune 5 Dec. i. 14/3 Among today's roughnecks you'll find college men—petroleum engineers and geologists. 1958 Times 15 May 14/6 Unskilled members of drilling crews are technically classified as ‘roughnecks’. 1977 Time 14 Mar. 37/1 The centre of the rig's activities is the mud-slicked drill floor, where half a dozen roughnecks struggle day and night with heavy chains and power-driven winches. 2005 B. A. Gow Roughnecks, Rock Bits & Rigs iii. 66/1 In 1946–47 a roughneck working in the Lloydminster field was being paid six dollars for an eight-hour shift. Compounds C1. General attributive, with sense ‘rough; rowdy; uncultivated; (also) of or characteristic of a roughneck; that is a roughneck’. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > [adjective] ruffian1553 ruffian-like1555 ruffianous1555 ruffianly1561 ruffianish1593 rowdy dowdy1816 rowdy1835 roughneck1906 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective] rudea1382 roida1400 borel1513 rustical?1532 illiberal1535 waste?1541 rusticc1550 illiterate1556 ruggedc1565 profane1568 unskilful1572 raw?1573 clownish1581 home-born1589 rough-hewn1593 unpolished1594 artless1598 home-bred1602 unbevelled1602 incult1628 museless1644 uncultivated1646 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 incultivate1661 unpolite1674 uncult1675 repent1684 uncultivated1725 uncultured1777 unenlightened1792 cultureless1824 sloven1856 philistinic1869 undoctrined1869 Philistine1871 Philistinish1871 roughneck1906 lowbrow1907 low-level1916 no-brow1922 bohunk1957 bakya1960 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough rudea1375 savagea1393 rougha1398 roid?c1425 brutisha1513 brash1868 roughneck1906 to treat 'em rough1962 1906 Leather Worker's Jrnl. May 483/1 Not very many months ago this same brother had some of the ‘roughneck’ jobs. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap vii. 288 Killed off in a sudden manner by his rough-neck parent. 1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 7 The others were rough-neck singers a long ways from home. 1976 R. Sanders in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 209 The roughneck genius of a Walt Whitman. 1983 Listener 28 July 33/3 She is the high-strung daughter of New England gentry, he the roughneck son of New England working class. 2009 D. L. McKinsey Oh by Jingo xiii. 93 Neil got a promise of a good roughneck job. C2. attributive. Frequently in form ruffneck. Of or designating (a performer of) a type of ragga music which typically features a particularly fast rhythm, harsh vocals, and lyrics dealing with gun culture and crime. ΚΠ 1990 Brian & Tony (Ram Dancehall) in rec.music.misc (Usenet Newsgroup) 7 Nov. Most of the Dancehall DJ's I know are into hardcore Roughneck tunes. 1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 14 Apr. 11 The mighty Sony Records have snapped up Ranks, Super Cat, Tiger and Mad Cobra in advance of what they hope is an international slide towards the ruffneck rhythms of Kingston Jamaica. 2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) iv. 78 Calls himself a bona fide singer now, DJ no longer. Had to, really. There was all these young ruffneck artists coming up badder than him. 2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 108/3 Once they made terrifying, roughneck jungle, now Spring Heel Jack make terrifying, roughneck free improv. Derivatives ˈroughnecking n. (originally) the action of behaving like a roughneck; (later) the action of working as a roughneck. ΚΠ 1912 Fifth Year Rec., Class of 1906 (Princeton Univ.) 102 Overawed by your suggestions for reunions of ‘less vulgarity and “rough-necking”’. 1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Feb. 3/1 About 200 a year are beginners ready to try roughnecking, the industry's term for the beginners' job. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 8 Oct. 6 At first Lowe raised the cash for climbing trips by bouts of roughnecking in the Wyoming oilfields. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). roughneckv. Brit. /ˈrʌfnɛk/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌnɛk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: roughneck n. Etymology: < roughneck n. Originally U.S. 1. transitive. U.S. (a) With it. To live in the manner of a roughneck, to 'rough it'. (b) To treat roughly. rare. ΚΠ 1914 Bank Man (Amer. Institute Banking) Aug. 30/1 Jim Glennon of the Collection Department spent his vacation ‘rough-necking’ it at Springfield. 1925 Amer. Mercury June 164/1 If you happen to be the least colored it is sufficient reason to..be rough-necked by a man whose nickel-faced badge is his only protection against the charge of high-way robbery. 2. intransitive. To work as a roughneck, esp. as a labourer on an oil rig. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > drill for oil or gas [verb (intransitive)] > specific occupations in oil-drilling roustabout1881 roughneck1932 1932 Amer. Speech 7 270 Roughneck, intr. v., to work as a member of a rotary driller's crew. 1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 96/2 Someone who has..rough-necked off Aberdeen. 2009 S. Callahan Lone Star Woman x. 124 I roughnecked for a few years on an offshore rig. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834v.1914
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roughneckn.

Compounds

Derivatives

roughneckv.