rough /ruf/

1. Uneven
2. Rugged
3. Unshorn
4. Unshaven
5. Unpolished
6. Harsh
7. Crude
8. Unelaborated
9. Without attention to minute correctness
10. (of a horse, etc) unbroken
11. Coarse
12. Rude
13. Unrefined
14. Ungentle
15. Turbulent
16. Aspirate
17. Astringent
18. Unpleasant, nasty (informal)
19. Difficult, harrowing (informal)
20. Feeling unwell, tired or hung over (informal)

1. Roughly
2. With roughness or risk of discomfort

1. Rough state
2. That which is rough
3. Rough ground, esp uncut grass, etc beside a golf fairway or green
4. A piece inserted in a horse's shoe to keep it from slipping
5. A hooligan, a rowdy
6. A crude preliminary sketch, etc

1. To make rough
2. To ruffle
3. To roughen the shoes of
4. To shape roughly
5. To treat roughly (usu with up)

roughˈage noun

1. Refuse of grain or crops
2. Bran, fibre, etc in food
3. Coarse food that promotes intestinal movement

roughˈen transitive verb

To make rough

To become rough

roughˈer noun

A person who performs preliminary operations

roughˈie noun

1. A dry bough, esp one used as a torch (Walter Scott)
2. A rough or rowdy person (slang)
3. An outsider in horse-racing or dog-racing (Aust sl)
4. An unfair trick, twist or incident, etc (Aust sl)

roughˈish adjective

roughˈly adverb

roughˈness noun

1. The quality of being rough
2. A rough place
3. Roughage (US dialect)

roughˈy noun same as roughie above

roughˈ-and-readˈy adjective

1. Ready to hand or easily improvised, and serving the purpose well enough
2. (of a person) lacking refinement or social graces but pleasant enough

roughˈ-and-tumbˈle adjective

Haphazard and scrambling (also adverb)

noun

1. A scuffle
2. Haphazard struggling

rough breathing noun

In ancient Greek, the sound h

roughˈcast transitive verb

1. To shape roughly
2. To cover with roughcast

noun

1. Plaster mixed with small stones or shells, used to coat the outside walls of buildings
2. A rough or preliminary model, etc

adjective

Coated with roughcast

roughˈ-coated adjective

Given an initial coat of plaster

rough collie noun

A shaggy-coated breed of collie

rough cut noun

A roughly edited, preliminary version or sequence of a film

rough diamond see under diamond

roughˈ-draft or roughˈ-draw transitive verb

To draft roughly

roughˈ-dry transitive verb

To dry without smoothing

adjective

(of linen, clothes, etc) ready for pressing

roughˈ-footed adjective

With feathered feet

roughˈ-grained adjective

Coarse-grained

rough grazing noun

Uncultivated ground, used for pasture

rough-grindˈ transitive verb

To grind roughly

rough-handˈle transitive verb

To treat roughly

rough-hewˈ transitive verb (Shakespeare)

To hew or shape into a rough form

rough-hewˈer noun

rough-hewnˈ adjective

1. Shaped roughly
2. Uncouth, unrefined

rough hound noun

A small species of dogfish

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