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rough house, rough-house, n. slang (orig. U.S.).
[rough a. 21.]
An uproar, a disturbance, a row; horseplay, boisterous behaviour; a fight, a struggle.
1887M. Roberts Western Avernus 54 He called the bridgeman a very opprobrious name, and for a moment there was great danger of a ‘rough house’ out of hand. 1895Harper's Mag. Mar. 540/2 They might be goin' to hev considerable rough house—a fuss, I mean, sir. 1900Dialect Notes II. 55 Rough-house, n. 1. A disorderly class. 2. Rough play. 1902G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant xvi. 238 [He] said he liked things lively, but there was altogether too much rough house on Beacon Hill for him. 1906Dialect Notes III. 154 Rough-house, n. Scuffle (in a room). ‘The room looked like they had had a roughhouse.’ Common slang. 1908A. J. Dawson Finn xix. 292 Seems to me you've been havin' a pretty rough house with somebody. 1911R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter iii. 49 But an ominous cry rose from his front. ‘Rush 'em, boys! Make a rough-house.’ 1913R. H. Barbour Around the End xxi. 258 The audience..indulged in wild ‘rough-house’. 1919‘Etienne’ Strange Tales from Fleet 136, I need not enlarge on the subsequent entertainments, which consisted of a sing-song followed by a ‘rough house’, in which a certain amount of furniture was broken. 1923H. L. Foster Beachcomber in Orient xi. 240, I..watched Singapore fade into the distance with its memories of vice, iniquity, and general rough-house. 1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! i. 25 That's enough, now. No more roughhouse. You sit down here, Richard. 1941Penguin New Writing II. 87 Someone being funny and turnin' off your juice and you keep striking at your electrode and wondering why the hell it doesn't strike and flash, and losing your temper, and then seeing the rest laughing and having a rough house for a while. 1952[see Boche]. 1973‘B. Graeme’ Two & Two make Five xiii. 123 He's smaller and lighter than me; not nearly so useful in a rough house.
b. attrib. or as adj. (Also roughhouse.)
1898F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace & War 25 Other gin'rals iv th' r-rough-house kind, like Napoleon Bonypart, th' impror iv th' Frinch, Gin'ral Ulis S. Grant, an' Cousin George Dooley, hired coarse, rude men. 1901Official Basket Ball Rules (Spalding's Athletic Library) 49 Mr. Naismith never invented the game for ‘rough house’ work. 1906N.Y. Globe 22 Aug. 6 On that rough-house occasion more force than was necessary was used to eject the Bryanite faction. 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill ii. 74 Two or three other directors..had put him into rough-house funny plays where he got thrown downstairs or had bricks fall on him. 1932Amer. Speech VII. 241 Jazz is free, Jazz is roughouse. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iv. 240 Mr. Bursely was shoved against the bookcase by Wallace Parker shoving, that rude way... I didn't like him to see us so rough house. 1938R. Graves Coll. Poems 121 Time and Space Do but amuse us with their rough-house turn. 1946Casper (Wyoming) Tribune-Herald 29 Mar. 9/3 Rocky, with his striking black hair and roughhouse tactics in the ring, has become a gallery idol. |