roach
/ɹoʊt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
noun
Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
noun
Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
Example Sentences
- "In his half hour of free time between brooms it was Willie's custom to smoke his lunch in an alleyway. He'd take just half a roach, only enough to make him feel a new day was starting, no more no less."
- "Last toke is the yellowing fabric of the roach, containing the stuff that is less than tobacco."
- "Yamato roached on his best friend."
- "I stand by it being a horrible call, but Yamdef getting called out for roaching, there’s definitely some irony going on there."
- "After long Working of this Coal, it was found upon the rising Grounds, that there lay another Roach of Coal, at the Depth of 14 Yards under it"
- "The roach, both of the top and bottom beds, is always imperceptibly incorporated with the freestone, which is invariable situated beneath it."
Etymology
From Middle English roche, from Old French roche, from Middle Low German roche, ruche (“ray (fish)”), from Old Saxon *rūh, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“rough”). Cognate with Old English ruhha ("a ray"; > Middle English rouhe, rohȝe), German Rochen (“ray (fish)”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹoʊt͡ʃ/
- British English: /ɹəʊtʃ/
Usage
- American usage
- Derogatory
- Slang
- British usage
- Transitive verb
- Obsolete
- Countable
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Albanian roach
Black Sea roach
blue roach
California roach
Caspian roach
common roach
brown-banded roach
dubia roach