Usage of "roughneck" | TermGallery

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A cruel and brutal fellow.

Usage of roughneck in English

Then the roughneck kicks because he got a belly full of Yukon. 
 The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North 

But does the abrasive roughneck have what it takes to frack himself? 
 The Guardian 

The foulmouthed roughneck is produced not by society's sexism but by society's absence. 
 Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism 

Nothing makes you feel tougher than pinning an honest-to-god Arkansas roughneck. 
 Rock and Ice Magazine 

It was mighty slow, an' I'm still a roughneck; but I'm gettin' on. 
 The Mucker 

Why, say, how would he be any relation of a roughneck like me? 
 The Coming of Bill 

A dear, splendid roughneck, doing a big work with the boys! 
 The Witness 

The conviction that he was a roughneck deepened in him and tied his tongue. 
 The Coming of Bill 

I can't stand for those roughneck cops, and Stodger as a custodian is a joke. 
 The Paternoster Ruby 

Wheeling a glass-fronted cabinet towards him is an intimidating desert roughneck with uncompromising facial hair. 
 The Guardian 

Going to grow warts on my hands and chew tobacco and develop into a brawny roughneck. 
 Kindred of the Dust 

A sort of roughneck out of a job. 
 A Voice in the Wilderness 

Latrell is from a roughneck wood of Chicago. 
 Ebony 

Bush was no roustabout, still less a roughneck. 
 The Guardian 

Cabrera was a roughneck, but even he felt a lump in his throat: burials depressed him. 
 The black minutes 

I told you I was a roughneck. 
 A Voice in the Wilderness 

roughneck

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Roughneck through the time

Meanings of roughneck in English