to roughhouse
- verb
- /ˈrʌfˌhaʊs/
- Informal
- Guy who has learned to not break me when we roughhouse.
- likes to roughhouse
Like so if they don't roughhouse with their dad when when a man is when they're out with a man, they don't have that comfort level of non sexual touch.
- Like so if they don't roughhouse with their dad when when a man is when they're out with a man, they don't have that comfort level of non sexual touch.
Examples
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They wrestled and roughhoused a bit.
Blog text (21) -
- I love you when you roughhouse!
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Okay, if you want to roughhouse, please take it at least 500 yards away from the stadium...
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My husband tries to roughhouse with him, but he is very physically timid.
Academic text (2004) -
Settlers like to roughhouse.
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Then he roughhoused with our Airedale, Atlas, while his girlfriend and mother shook hands.
Fiction book (1999) -
The children love to roughhouse in the backyard every weekend.
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During playtime, the boys often roughhouse with each other, laughing and tumbling around.
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After school, the kids would roughhouse together until dinner time.
Synonyms
To play roughly with someone, often by pushing and tumbling in a friendly way
How Rough
- Informal
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Roughhouse is made from the common words rough ('not gentle') and house ('home' or 'place'); picture children tumbling and making a noisy mess in a room. So, to roughhouse is to play or fight in a loud, rough way.