rugged individuality
originally and chiefly US
noun
The fact or quality of being self-reliant or independent; social or economic independence; the advocacy of this.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Dwight's Journal Music.
- snap out of
- snappable
- snap pea
- snapper
- snappily
- pick-cheese
- pick-dress
- pick dressing
- picked dogfish
- picke-devant
- pickeer
- pickeering
- pickelhaube
- picker
- pickerdevant
- pickerel
- pickerel frog
- pickerelweed
- pickering
- pickeringite
- Pickering, John
- Pickering, Timothy
- Pickering, William Hayward
- picker-up
- picker-upper