rough tongue
noun
The habit of speaking rudely: he was known as a jovial fellow but was not without a vicious temper and a rough tongue...
- My father often chided my rough tongue and inelegant writing - but I digress.
- Looming large in these pages is the figure of the poet's father, whose rough tongue maintains its influence.
Derivatives
rough-tongued
- The rough-tongued provincial at once protested and walked out through the door.
- With London musicians he was alternately rough-tongued and paternal, handing out cigarettes to the ones who pleased him.
- customs
- customs clearance
- customs duties
- customs house
- customs union
- custos rotulorum
- custumal
- cut
- cut a caper
- cut a dash
- cut a deal
- cut-and-come-again
- cut-and-cover
- cut and dried
- cut and paste
- cut and run
- cut and shut
- cut and thrust
- cutaneous
- cut a (or the) ribbon
- cut a (or the) rug
- cut a swathe through
- cut a tooth
- cutaway
- cut a wide swath