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ˈrough-house, v. slang (orig. U.S.).
Also rough house, roughhouse.
[f. the n.]
1. intr. To make a disturbance or row; to behave or act boisterously or violently; to fight or engage in horse-play with. Also quasi-trans. with it.
1900Dialect Notes II. 55 Rough-house, v.i. To put a room in disorder. 1904R. L. McCardell Show Girl & her Friends 107 When they teased him about having to keep him out of the place if he did not stop rough-housing it, poor Dopey smiled..and asked if he had hurt anybody very bad. 1908U. Sinclair Metropolis 57 She's always wanting to rough-house it. 1920‘Sapper’ Bull-Dog Drummond ix. 239 Somebody has been rough-housing by the look of things. 1928Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 211/2 He had a veteran in combat to deal with, a man who had ‘rough-housed’ it all over the world. 1929E. L. Rice Street Scene ii. 167 Rough-housing with your kid brother. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 May 43/2 Police spokesmen said the boys were ‘rough-housing’ on the grass. 1977Time 10 Jan. 13/1 Twice, a broken leg set him back—once when he was caught in an avalanche while skiing, later while roughhousing with friends.
2. trans. To handle (a person) violently; to assail roughly; to maltreat by rough usage.
1902H. L. Wilson Spenders xxxvi. 436 You rough-housed the boy considerable yesterday. 1903N.Y. Times 6 Oct. 1 After the rush the classes adjourned to Massachusetts Avenue and began to ‘rough house’ the passing street cars. 1925H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 188 The S[ocial] M[anager] must not risk the loss of their future patronage by mauling or roughhousing such as might not enjoy it, or at least tolerate it. 1928Daily Express 4 Sept. 9/5 Harvey as a boxer of exceptional skill should not have allowed West to rush into close quarters and ‘rough-house’ him. 1938X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) xxvi. 389 He explained that when he had tried to keep order at the station he had been rough-housed. 1952in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 434/1 The question of whether..gun-toting bodyguards rough-housed Swedish citizens.
Hence ˈrough-houser (also attrib. and fig.); ˈrough-housing vbl. n.
1904N.Y. Even. Post 2 Jan., In fiction, whether it is historic, society, or the work of literary rough-housers. 1927Blackw. Mag. June 843/2 It is more than mere rough-housing. 1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise v. 90 Stand by..in case there's any rough-housing. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment i. xii. 131 Apart from some rough-housing..the troops found no occasion for any martial activity. 1951Sun (Baltimore) 2 Mar. 19/2 In some sections, wrestling is outdrawing boxing... Lord Carlton, who poses as a titled Englishman; the Golden Terror, a roughhouser type..have contributed to the success. 1974H. L. Foster Ribbin' vi. 244 Many male teachers relate physically to male students through playful roughhousing where some form of physical body contact is made. |