| 释义 |
roughie
noun- an unrefined person or thing AUSTRALIA, 1907
Arthur Chipper notes, in The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, 1972, that the term is “Perhaps most commonly assigned to young ladies who aren’t good-looking or too well-mannered”. - a racehorse or greyhound not expected to win; an outsider AUSTRALIA, 1922
- Pat, who was strong on punting but weak on education, collected on a 100–1 winner at Randwick. His mate Mick asked him how he came to pick such a roughie. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 45, 1975
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 78, 1977
- — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 133, 1979
- It was a roughie, a real outsider[.] — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 88, 1982
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 69, 1989
- a sheep with two seasons of wool growth FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS), 1993
- — Bernadette Hince, The Antarctic Dictionary, p. 293, 2000
- a movie that combines sexual and violent exploitation US
- Others produced “roughies,” a mixture of sex and violence. — The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, p. 109, 1970
|