Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Rowdy, uproarious behavior or play.
- v. To engage in rowdy, uproarious behavior or play.
- v. To handle or treat roughly, usually in fun.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. engage in rough or disorderly play
Examples
“They see it every day on the playground::: The girls are kind, considerate and thoughtful while the boys are engaging in roughhouse and intentionally hurting each other.”
“I address the boys, tell them to NOT engage their sisters in roughhouse play.”
“Farina regularly employed "roughhouse" driving tactics that would not be tolerated today, and was without doubt one of the hardest men ever to front an F1 starter.”
“If the kick was a trademark of the pragmatic Andrew, the hanging elbow was a signature of the little Davies, born to survive in the roughhouse.”
The Guardian: Rob Andrew: rugby's Teflon Don under siege | Observer profile
“Chile itself is not immune to regional roughhouse tactics.”
“But what really appears to irritate American Jews is the president's roughhouse treatment of Israel.”
The Huffington Post: Edward Klein: The Jewish Problem With Obama; Part One
“I saw 'To Sir, With Love,' he chuckles, recounting the 1967 classic in which Sidney Poitier plays an idealistic teacher who wins over students at a roughhouse London school.”
“I heard they had a fearful roughhouse, but I couldn't stop to see.”
“You was the guy that stuck your cane between Timothy McManus's legs an 'started the grandest roughhouse Weasel Park or any other park ever seen.”
“It's true that young animals roughhouse and fool around, she said, but play among human children is not universal.”
USA Today: Advocates: Importance of play time for children neglected
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘roughhouse’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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*ghh
List of words such as highhandedly that contain the string *ghh. Just click on the listed string to populate the short list of such words indexed by Wordnik. Feel free to add your own examples to t...
*ghh, boroughhead, roughhead, weighhouse, ploughhead, heighho, boughhty, ughh, aarghh, roughhew, roughhewn, roughhewed and 4 more...
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aa, savvy, divvy, powwow, matchhead, skiing, hajj, trekking, continuum, vacuum, bathhouse, fishhook and 37 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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Worldist
huzzah, foo, bar, unfuggled, celerity, tinny, tall pole in the ..., anathema, eel's broth, how come, whole nuther, roughhouse and 52 more...
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