![]() ![]() 1300) was an old term for "a bearded face. for the purpose of annoying or punishing a neighbor" is by 1708. Rough music "din produced by banging pots, pans, etc. The Rough Riders was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the SpanishAmerican War and the only one to see combat. Rough-and-ready "rude and disorderly" is by 1832, from an earlier noun (1810), originally military rough-and-tumble "not elaborately or carefully ordered" is from a style of free-fighting characterized by indiscriminate blows and falls (1810). The sense of "approximate" is recorded from c. Of writing or literary style, "lacking refinement, unpolished," 1530s. 1600 as "rudely sufficient, not smooth or formed by art." Rough stone "undressed stone mortared together" is from mid-15c. of turbulent seas, rude language, discordant sounds.įrom mid-14c. as "rugged, hard to traverse." Of stormy weather from mid-14c. Of actions, "characterized by harshness or disparity," c. The form row was a regular variant from early 16c. The original -gh- sound was guttural, as in Scottish loch. Middle English rough (late 14c.), also rouhe, rouwe, roghe, rugh, etc., from Old English ruh, rug- "not smooth to the touch, coarse (of cloth) hairy, shaggy " of hides, "undressed, untrimmed " of ground, "uncultivated." This is from West Germanic *rukhwaz "shaggy, hairy, rough" (source also of Middle Dutch ruuch, Dutch ruig, Old High German ruher, German rauh), from Proto-Germanic *rukhaz, which is perhaps related to the source of Sanskrit ruksah "rough " Latin ruere "to rush, fall violently, collapse," ruina "a collapse " Lithuanian raukas "wrinkle," rukti "to shrink." ![]()
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