toughie
/ˈtʌfi
/noun informal
1A person who is tough and determined: she was a toughie on the phone...
- When the going gets tough, you toughies really do get up - so make the extra effort this week to help others not fortunate enough to have been born Capricorns with some of your true grit, fortitude and soul support.
- The toughies she encountered during her teaching career knew exactly where they stood with her and respected her for it.
- College students are held in low esteem, thanks to commercial movies that regularly feature youth as toughies amid free-flowing booze, drugs, and gals.
2A difficult problem or question: Who do you admire most? That’s a toughie...
- But some students cracked real toughies, too, without batting an eyelid.
- That's a toughie, because there's no way to get around it - if they're fat-free, the cookies aren't so great, and you end up eating more.
- That's a toughie, because they sometimes want detail.
Rhymes
- musicker
- musicking
- mu-sickness
- musicless
- music licence
- music license
- music line
- music lover
- music maker
- music man
- music master
- musicness
- music night
- musico
- music of the spheres
- musicogenic
- musicographer
- musicography
- musicological
- musicologically
- musicologist
- musicology
- musicophile
- music (or harmony) of the spheres
- music paper