roughneck

Other forms of roughneck

plural

roughnecks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about roughneck

What does roughneck mean?

roughneck means "a cruel and brutal fellow".

How many syllables are in roughneck?

roughneck has 2 syllables: rough-neck. The stress falls on "rough". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌfˌnɛk/.

What is another word for roughneck?

Close synonyms include bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, rowdy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roughneck a common word?

roughneck is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with roughneck?

6 words rhyme with roughneck. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.