| 单词 | roughneck |
| 释义 | roughneck (once / 27360 pages) n A roughneck is a troublemaker who gets in a lot of fights and doesn’t have good manners. Roughnecks are also men who work at dangerous, grueling hard-labor jobs. Maybe that’s why they’re so mad. Roughnecks weren’t always brutes — the term comes from Texas and used to just refer to a “rugged individual.” Then it was a word for someone who worked on an oil rig. But now a roughneck is someone, usually a big man, who’s tough, crude, and ready to fight. Roughnecks are the opposite of mild-mannered people. Roughnecks are uneducated and foul-mouthed. They’re the kind of people your parents warn you about. WORD FAMILYroughneck: roughnecks USAGE EXAMPLESLee’s play is hilarious, depicting the three grown brothers and their father gathered for Christmas as happy roughnecks pummeling each other and swapping crude insults. Washington Post(Nov 15, 2016) You can call it ‘roughneck,’ kind of people who fight America’s wars. Washington Times(Nov 13, 2016) In Wyoming’s roughneck culture, the men who work the state’s oil and gas fields are as tough as their name. Washington Times(Oct 26, 2016) n a cruel and brutal fellow Syn|Hypo|Hyper bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo bullyboy a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction muscle, musclemana bully employed as a thug or bodyguard skinheada young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations plug-ugly, tough guysomeone who bullies weaker people Ted, Teddy boya tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker someone who attacks |
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