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- noun Plural form of
roughy . - noun Plural form of
roughie .
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Examples
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Various scholars and genre icons (Dick Miller, Vampira) also chime in with sometimes half-baked sociocultural analyses, but this 2000 documentary is most valuable for its harvest of excerpts from the lurid and long-forgotten "roughies" and "nudie cuties" of the 60s and from Corman's loose adaptations of Poe (some of which featured a fresh-faced though already demented Jack Nicholson). 90 min.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Various scholars and genre icons (Dick Miller, Vampira) also chime in with sometimes half-baked sociocultural analyses, but this 2000 documentary is most valuable for its harvest of excerpts from the lurid and long-forgotten "roughies" and "nudie cuties" of the 60s and from Corman's loose adaptations of Poe (some of which featured a fresh-faced though already demented Jack Nicholson). 90 min.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Various scholars and genre icons (Dick Miller, Vampira) also chime in with sometimes half-baked sociocultural analyses, but this 2000 documentary is most valuable for its harvest of excerpts from the lurid and long-forgotten "roughies" and "nudie cuties" of the 60s and from Corman's loose adaptations of Poe (some of which featured a fresh-faced though already demented Jack Nicholson). 90 min.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Various scholars and genre icons (Dick Miller, Vampira) also chime in with sometimes half-baked sociocultural analyses, but this 2000 documentary is most valuable for its harvest of excerpts from the lurid and long-forgotten "roughies" and "nudie cuties" of the 60s and from Corman's loose adaptations of Poe (some of which featured a fresh-faced though already demented Jack Nicholson). 90 min.
Chicago Reader 2010
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In carnival lingo, those part-time workers are called "roughies," and it was a nice little sideline for Kathy Cox, who also works as a substitute teacher.
Record Article Feed 2010
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It is interesting that many films you feature such as those by Sarno, Findlay and HG Lewis would be more likely classified as "roughies."
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Still, it is interesting to see film noir lead to roughies and then to out and out porn.
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I'm weel convinced Gabriel drapped the roughies in the water on purpose; he doesna like to see ony body do a thing better than himsell. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Laying the roughies to keep the cauld wind frae you, ye desperate do-nae-good.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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I'm weel convinced Gabriel drapped the roughies in the water on purpose; he doesna like to see ony body do a thing better than himsell. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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