| 单词 | rough as bags |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrough as bags (also guts, etc.) P4. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. rough as bags (also guts, etc.): (esp. of a person) uncouth, coarse. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > coarse agrest?1440 robust1511 roynish1570 sowish1570 lubberlike1572 lubberly1580 ordinarya1586 roborean1656 porcine1660 coarse1680 crude1722 low1725 piggish1742 coarse-graineda1774 crass1861 coarse-fibred1872 barnyard1895 farmyard1911 rough as guts1919 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 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 42 Rough as bags. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 246 Rough as a sandbag,..a term for a person who behaves unpleasantly. Uncouth. Objectionable. 1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo ii. 22 Ted was as rough as bags..a good-looking, good-natured bloke who could neither read nor write. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang 53 [20th cent. N.Z. slang includes] rough as a bag (the Australians also have rough as bags), and rough as a pig's breakfast. 1951 Meanjin 10 9 Too muggin' right he's rough... Rough as guts. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 115 There is simile:..‘rough as bags’ (which I know better in the variant ‘rough as sacks’). 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds x. 235 Even Dot MacPherson, the Bingelly heiress,..was rough as bags, no posh Sydney boarding school and all that crap. 2001 T. Winton Dirt Music (2003) 17 Even after the boom when many families became instantly..rich..they were, in any estimation, as rough as guts. < as lemmas |
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