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adjective
1.
strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
2.
not brittle or tender.
3.
difficult to masticate, as food: a tough steak.
4.
of viscous consistency, as liquid or semiliquid matter: tough molasses.
5.
EXPANDcapable of great endurance; sturdy; hardy: tough troops.
6.
not easily influenced, as a person; unyielding; stubborn: a tough man to work for.
7.
hardened; incorrigible: a tough criminal.
8.
difficult to perform, accomplish, or deal with; hard, trying, or troublesome: a tough problem.
9.
hard to bear or endure (often used ironically): tough luck.
10.
vigorous; severe; violent: a tough struggle.
11.
vicious; rough; rowdyish: a tough character; a tough neighborhood.
12.
practical, realistic, and lacking in sentimentality; tough-minded.
13.
COLLAPSESlang. remarkably excellent; first-rate; great.
adverb
14.
in a tough manner.
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Toughs
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
noun
Idioms15.
a ruffian; rowdy.
16.
17.
tough it out, Informal. to endure or resist hardship or adversity.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English (adj.); Old English tōh; compare Dutch taai, German zäh(e)
before 900; Middle English (adj.); Old English tōh; compare Dutch taai, German zäh(e)
Related forms
tough·ly, adverb
tough·ness, noun
su·per·tough, adjective
un·tough, adjective
un·tough·ly, adverb
EXPANDun·tough·ness, noun
COLLAPSESynonyms
1. firm, hard. 5. durable. 6. inflexible.
1. firm, hard. 5. durable. 6. inflexible.
Antonyms
1. fragile. 5. feeble, weak.
1. fragile. 5. feeble, weak.
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Word Origin & History
tough
O.E. toh "difficult to break or chew," from P.Gmc. *tankhuz (cf. M.L.G. tege, M.Du. taey, Du. taai, O.H.G. zach, Ger. zäh). See rough for spelling change. Figurative sense of "strenuous, difficult, hard to beat" is first recorded c.1200; that of "hard to do, trying, laborious" is from 1619. The
EXPAND noun meaning "street ruffian" (U.S.) is from 1866. Toughen is attested from 1580s. Verb tough it "endure the experience" is first recorded 1830, Amer.Eng. Tough guy first recorded 1932. Tough-minded first recorded 1907 in William James. Tough luck first recorded 1912; tough shit is from 1946.
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