[1755–65; rough + -ish1]This word is first recorded in the period 1755–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: baroque, generalization, lame duck, mitt, outfit-ish is a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”(British; Danish; English; Spanish); “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (babyish; girlish; mulish); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” (bookish; freakish); “near or about” (fiftyish; sevenish)
Examples of 'roughish' in a sentence
roughish
They are succeeded by small, roughish fruit, resembling an infant cucumber, but they usually fall off before becoming ripe.
A. D. Webster Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs (1897). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)