dog rough
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Very rowdy, disorderly, and dangerous.
adj
Very difficult and unpleasant.
Example Sentences
- "Back in the days when Cork City was dog rough, where to take a night-time stroll was an act of madness comparable to forcing long deadly skewers into your eyeballs, Cork was a jungle back then."
- "But the area wasn't so bad - Lower Grope, further west, was the rough bit. The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals. Where louts shout and thugs mug. Dog rough..."
- "These pubs: dog rough, if you ask me, but there you go."
- "“Ach, life was dog rough back there, Tom, that it was."
- "The prison breakfast was dog rough."
- "“It was dog rough,” admits one Ahern supporter. A constituency delegate remembers: “The old traditional Fianna Fáil people were getting on. They were outflanked and there was often little or no resistance.”"
Inflected Forms
more dog rough (comparative)
most dog rough (superlative)