单词 | rough-hewn |
释义 | rough-hewnadj. 1. a. Roughly shaped out; lacking finish. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [adjective] > shaped > by or as by cutting > roughly rough-hewn1530 rough-hewed1563 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty > crude or undeveloped > rough or rude > roughly formed or made rude1488 rough-hewn1530 rough1561 rough-hewed1563 roughcast1588 rough-wrought?1665 rough and tumble1855 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 694/2 It is rough hewen all redy, I wyll nowe fall a karvynge of it. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D v Their heads like rough hewen Gloabes, are fit for nothing but to be the blockhouses for sleepe. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 149 Thy head is like a rough-hewne statue of jeat. 1697 H. Downes Excellency Publick Charity 7 Materials, rough-hewn, unprepar'd for Use, out of which indeed fine things might be wrought. a1741 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. (1754) III. Introd. 25 The rock..serves for the way, but rough hewn and furrowed, that horses may have firm footing upon it. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 150 Along the rough-hewn bench The sweltry man had stretched him. 1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea ii. 16 The holes between the rough-hewn logs were stuffed with moss. 1852 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 179 A statue that had been perfectly polished in front, and left rough-hewn behind. 1908 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ Vronina xi. 124 The seats are rough-hewn benches, some with backs and some without, and the altar is as rough hewn. 2004 P. Bacigalupi in G. Dozois Year's Best Sci. Fiction 248 She pressed the vial into a secure crack, tight against the stone and roughhewn wood of the shelving. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Unpolished, unrefined. Also: (of a person's face or features) strong, angular. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective] rudea1382 roida1400 borel1513 rustical?1532 illiberal1535 waste?1541 rusticc1550 illiterate1556 ruggedc1565 profane1568 unskilful1572 raw?1573 clownish1581 home-born1589 rough-hewn1593 unpolished1594 artless1598 home-bred1602 unbevelled1602 incult1628 museless1644 uncultivated1646 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 incultivate1661 unpolite1674 uncult1675 repent1684 uncultivated1725 uncultured1777 unenlightened1792 cultureless1824 sloven1856 philistinic1869 undoctrined1869 Philistine1871 Philistinish1871 roughneck1906 lowbrow1907 low-level1916 no-brow1922 bohunk1957 bakya1960 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 198 Smooth voyces do well in most societies;..when rowgh-hewne words do but lay blockes in their own way. 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 66v To polish and fashion out his then rough-hewen fortune, with the edge of his subduing sword. 1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. i. 25 Lord, what a Monster of a Man is there! With such a Workiday-rough-hewn face too! 1712 J. Gay Arachne in A. Pope Misc. Poems 92 In a strong Satyr's rough-hewn Form he came. 1726 C. Ellison Most Pleasant Descr. Benwel Village mclxxxi. 543 Such rough-hewn Lookes And far-fetch'd Jokes Did Taverns all produce. 1813 T. J. Dibdin Metrical Hist. Eng. I. i. 19 Observe, that, when these rough-hewn rhymes they sung, The ancient Britons were but very young. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ii. 91 Envy and hatred, like all other vices in those rough-hewn times, were apt to take very startling..shapes. 1907 Daily Chron. 23 Feb. 3/2 These true-ringing, rough-hewn epistles. 1960 E. McBain 87th Squad 11 He was a big man with a rough-hewn face and big hands. 2004 A. Meldrum Where we have Hope iii. 38 His painfully proper speech..was very different from the rough-hewn English spoken by most Zimbabweans. 2. Of a person: lacking in refinement; uncultivated; plain, blunt. Also: †rough-natured, cruel (obsolete).In quot. 1604 in figurative context; cf. rough adj. 14. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined > specifically of persons uplandisha1387 rustyc1485 rustical?1532 gross?1533 rusticc1550 rough-hewn1591 unfashioned1606 unpolite1674 crude1722 uncouth1732 piggish1742 rough-spun1768 coarse-graineda1774 coarse-fibred1872 rough as guts1919 1591 J. Lyly Endimion iii. ii. sig. E You must not thinke that Souldiours bee so rough hewne, or of such knottie mettle, that beautie cannot allure. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. lvi. 82 Being a rough hewen souldiour, and not used to make Orations. 1604 F. Herring Modest Def. Caueat 16 Medecines... The third and last are termed Violent, churlish or rough-hewen. 1660 T. Willsford Scales Commerce & Trade ii. i. 149 Leaving the rough-hewn and cross-grain'd people to their own imaginations. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 53 The English Man reply'd like a true rough-hewn Tarpaulin. 1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 95 A brave, bold, rough-hewn Gentleman of Britany. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 87 The rough-hewn native of the north. 1892 Month Nov. 310 Rough-hewn rustics without manners. 1906 PMLA 21 380 She has changed from the incidental rough-hewn but deep-feeling woman of the early poems into a delicately refined creature. 1955 P. Chayefsky Big Deal in Television Plays 105 (stage direct. ) Two men are in the shop, both in their forties. Both are roughhewn types. 2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 24/1 He was neither a rough-hewn, self-made workingman nor a smooth, upper-class operator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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