roughneck
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From rough + neck, originally "someone who works a manual labour job".
Noun[edit]
roughneck (plural roughnecks)
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person. [from 19th c.]
- 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 202:
- LaTisha has long wanted to show Carole sheʼs not the roughneck she used to be, the roughneck who wasnʼt good enough to be her friend.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer. [from 20th c.]
- (colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig. [from 20th c.]
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 286:
- As for the minerals, there has been a good deal of drilling along the big river; trucks and roughnecks no longer garner any notice.
Translations[edit]
someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person
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a laborer on an oil rig
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See also[edit]
- roustabout, oil trash
- roughneck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb[edit]
roughneck (third-person singular simple present roughnecks, present participle roughnecking, simple past and past participle roughnecked)