Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Somewhat rough.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Somewhat rough.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. somewhat rough
Etymologies
- rough + -ish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“em now, Miss; the trail's kind of roughish like, but ef yo'll jist take the lantern an 'foller 'long ahead I reckon we'll make hit all right.”
“What will your mother say, Ginny, about a pack of roughish lesbians descending on her suburban sanctity?”
“It had to have a roughish interior and a glazed exterior, and I wanted a pot that was attractive, but not fancy looking or decorated.”
“The man engaged to bear his box — Tom knew him well: a Dragon man — came stamping up the stairs, and made a roughish bow to Tom (to whom in common times he would have nodded with a grin) as though he were aware of what had happened, and wished him to perceive it made no difference to HIM.”
“In appearance all were marked by a rakish intelligent dissimilarity of tramadol cheap, one generally being socio-structural and the roughish single-shot.”
“At the large Chinese village of Rassa, a clever little Sumatra pony met us; and after passing through some roughish clearings, on which tapioca is being planted, we arrived here at 4 P.M., having traveled sixty miles in thirty-three hours.”
“Hardy as he was, no horse could stand that altogether; so we kept him under shelter in a roughish kind of a loose box we had knocked up, and fed him on bush hay.”
“Starlight had changed his clothes, and was dressed like a swell — away on a roughish trip, but still like a swell.”
“He could make pretty good play in thick country, and ride a roughish horse, too.”
“Clothed as backwoodsmen are generally clothed, not over elaborately, his garments bore witness to long and roughish wear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘roughish’.
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Ada, or Ardor
I only started dog-earing 2/5 of the way through, so I'll have to re-read at some point in order to complete this list.
fatidic, herbarium, volitation, plafond, pseudopodal, hongry, dolent, dackel, fubsy, hurdies, palpebral, twayblade and 98 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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