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roughish

[ ruhf-ish ]

adjective

  1. rather rough:

    a roughish sea.



roughish

/ ˈʌɪʃ /

adjective

  1. somewhat rough
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of roughish1

First recorded in 1755–65; rough + -ish 1
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One of his interviewees described the smell as "roughish but not as bad as you might think", but there were places "where they tell me the foul air will cause instant death".

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Culm 1–2° high; leaves roughish; panicle open; glumes unequal, lanceolate, their midrib and the pedicels rough.—N.

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It is a perennial plant, producing annually several long twining roughish striated stems, which twist from left to right, are often 15 to 20 ft. long and climb freely over hedges and bushes.

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Leaves.—Ovate to oblong-lanceolate; three to six inches long; dark green; roughish.

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This tree sometimes rises to a great height, and is covered with a roughish bark.

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