rough-house

1. 1.

   treat in a rough or boisterous manner

   Broadertreat

Questions about rough-house

What does rough-house mean?

rough-house means "treat in a rough or boisterous manner".

How many syllables are in rough-house?

rough-house has 2 syllables and divides as rough--house under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is rough-house a common word?

rough-house is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.