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Meanings of roughneck in English

Portuguese
bigorrilha
Catalan
batusser
Spanish
gorila

A cruel and brutal fellow.

bigorrilha
Usage of roughneck in English
1
Then the roughneck kicks because he got a belly full of Yukon.
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
2
But does the abrasive roughneck have what it takes to frack himself?
The Guardian
3
The foulmouthed roughneck is produced not by society's sexism but by society's absence.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
4
Nothing makes you feel tougher than pinning an honest-to-god Arkansas roughneck.
Rock and Ice Magazine
5
It was mighty slow, an' I'm still a roughneck; but I'm gettin' on.
The Mucker
6
Why, say, how would he be any relation of a roughneck like me?
The Coming of Bill
7
A dear, splendid roughneck, doing a big work with the boys!
The Witness
8
The conviction that he was a roughneck deepened in him and tied his tongue.
The Coming of Bill
9
I can't stand for those roughneck cops, and Stodger as a custodian is a joke.
The Paternoster Ruby
10
Wheeling a glass-fronted cabinet towards him is an intimidating desert roughneck with uncompromising facial hair.
The Guardian
11
Going to grow warts on my hands and chew tobacco and develop into a brawny roughneck.
Kindred of the Dust
12
A sort of roughneck out of a job.
A Voice in the Wilderness
13
Latrell is from a roughneck wood of Chicago.
Ebony
14
Bush was no roustabout, still less a roughneck.
The Guardian
15
Cabrera was a roughneck, but even he felt a lump in his throat: burials depressed him.
The black minutes
16
I told you I was a roughneck.
A Voice in the Wilderness
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Spanish
gorila
Roughneck through the time