Rough vs Humpy - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between rough and humpy

is that rough is having a texture that has much friction not smooth; uneven while humpy is characterised by humps, uneven.

As nouns the difference between rough and humpy

is that rough is the unmowed part of a golf course while humpy is (australia) a hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for aborigines.

As a verb rough

is to create in an approximate form.

As an adverb rough

is in a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

rough

English

Alternative forms

* (colloquial) ruff

Adjective

(er)

Having a texture that has much friction. Not smooth; uneven.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

The rock was one of those tremendously solid brown, or rather black, rocks which emerge from the sand like something primitive. Rough with crinkled limpet shells and sparsely strewn with locks of dry seaweed, a small boy has to stretch his legs far apart, and indeed to feel rather heroic, before he gets to the top.

Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

a rough''' estimate; a '''rough sketch of a building

Turbulent.

The sea was rough .

Difficult; trying.

Being a teenager nowadays can be rough .

Crude; unrefined

His manners are a bit rough , but he means well.

Violent; not careful or subtle

This box has been through some rough handling.

Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.

a rough''' tone; a '''rough voice

(Alexander Pope)

Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.

a rough diamond

Harsh-tasting.

rough wine

Antonyms

* smooth

Noun

(en noun)

The unmowed part of a golf course.

A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

(cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.

The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.

A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming and a vital step in the design process.

(obsolete) Boisterous weather.

(Fletcher)

Verb

(en verb)

To create in an approximate form.

Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.

To physically assault someone in retribution.

The gangsters roughed him up a little.

(ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.

To render rough; to roughen.

To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.

(Crabb)

Adverb

(en adverb)

In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

* Sir Walter Scott

Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats.

Derived terms

* bit of rough * diamond in the rough * rough and ready * roughhouse * rough in * roughness * rough out * rough up

humpy

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)

Characterised by humps, uneven.

* 1907 , Edith M.H Baylor, A Little Prospector , page 60,

A very weary small boy and a weary father and mother were soon asleep in the hardest and humpiest bed ever made.

* 1988 , John Gunnell, Chevrolet Pickups, 1946-1972: How to Identify, Select and Restore Chevrolet Collector Light Trucks, Panels and El Caminos , page 19,

The cab height was reduced, but the front fenders looked higher and humpier .

* 2011 , Steven Vogel, Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World , page 255,

The sand dollars adjust the gaps between individuals depending on flow speed, and populations from more sheltered locations consist of slightly humpier (more cambered) individuals with greater lift coefficients.

Muscular; hunky.

* 2010 , John Butler, Ships That Pass in the Night , page 90,

On a Friday night, Tom went upstairs to the second-floor show bar at the club to see the final show, and decided that Oscar had really underpraised the dancers – as each one entered, he appeared to be even humpier and better-hung than the ones before.

Hunched, bent over.

* 1907 , P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel , 2008, page 107,

Tell you what it was just like. Reminded me of it even at the time: that picture of Napoleon coming back from Moscow. The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them.

Sulky; irritable.

* 1996 , Mark Kinkead-Weekes, D.H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile, 1912-1922 , Volume 1, page 55,

As the rain poured down; and Frieda went on and on about the children; and Lawrence got humpier' and ' humpier but kept asking ‘a dozen times a day in all keys, are you miserable’ (i. 534); it must have been the Christmas misery all over again.

Derived terms

* humpily * humpiness

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (Brisbane region) , perhaps influenced by (hump).

Noun

(humpies)

(Australia) A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines.

* 1984 , Maxwell John Charlesworth (editor), Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology , page 129,

I dreamed that a boy child walked past all the other humpies [Australian white term for native huts] in the camp and kept coming until he got to my house. He beat on the bark wall.

*1961 , (Nene Gare), The Fringe Dwellers , Text Classics 2012, p. 31:

*:Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy .

* 1988 , Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked , 1995, Angus & Robertson, p. 257,

There weren?t that many blacks about, but a lot of humpies – at times it must have been a fairly big camp.

* 2003 , Frank G. Clarke, Australia in a Nutshell: A Narrative History , page 215,

Evicted men and their families lived wherever they could, and shanty towns of hessian-sack humpies' grew up in Sydney?s southern suburbs on vacant crown land: the largest being at Brighton-le-Sands, Rockdale, Long Bay and La Perouse. In such camps, unemployed huddled for warmth in ' humpies while, closer to the city, others squatted in caves in the Domain around the local beauty spot known as Mrs Macquarie?s chair.

Synonyms

* gunyah