What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Rough vs Larrikin - What's the difference?

rough | larrikin | Related terms |

Rough is a related term of larrikin.


As adjectives the difference between rough and larrikin

is that rough is having a texture that has much friction not smooth; uneven while larrikin is (australian|slang) exhibiting the characteristics or behaviour of a larrikin; playfully rebellious against and contemptuous of authority and convention.

As nouns the difference between rough and larrikin

is that rough is the unmowed part of a golf course while larrikin is (australia|new zealand|slang|dated) a brash and impertinent, possibly violent, troublemaker, especially a youth; a hooligan.

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

    larrikin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang, dated) A brash and impertinent, possibly violent, troublemaker, especially a youth; a hooligan.
  • * 1896 , , A Visit of Condolence'', published in ''While the Billy Boils: Second Series'', republished 2010, ''Selected Stories , unnumbered page,
    • “How dare you talk to me like that, you young larrikin ? Be off! or I'll send for a policeman.”
  • * 1913 , David Paul Gooding, , Chapter XII,
    • Another man told me there never had been a staff on the hill; but if there had been, perhaps larrikins' would have removed it. For larrikinism is one of the evils of New Zealand. Everywhere there one hears of the '''larrikin''', or young hoodlum. '''Larrikins''' are an unorganized, mischievous fraternity. They are always despoiling or marring public or private property or making people the butt of coarse jokes and jeers. If something is stolen, "the '''larrikins''' took it"; if windows or park seats are broken, "the ' larrikins did it."
  • (Australia, slang) A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms.
  • * 1988 , Gavin Souter, Acts of Parliament: A Narrative History of the Senate and House of Representatives, Commonwealth of Australia , page 432,
    • When Browne's turn came, he went down like a true larrikin , giving cheek to the end.
  • * 2006 September 5, '', '' It's like a part of Australia has died ,
    • "We're all a bit embarrassed by him[]. He puts that image of Australia to the world - that larrikin attitude - and we're not all like that," says Milo Laing, 27, the manager of an Australian-themed bar on Shaftesbury Avenue.
  • * 2006 , Nick Economou, 26: Jeff Kennett: The larrikin metropolitan'', Paul Strangio, Brian Costar (editors), ''The Victorian Premiers, 1856-2006 , page 363,
    • From the moment he had become opposition leader following the defeat of Lindsay Thompson's government in 1982, Jeff Kennett had been viewed as a political larrikin .

    Derived terms

    * larrikinism

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Australian, slang) Exhibiting the characteristics or behaviour of a larrikin; playfully rebellious against and contemptuous of authority and convention.
  • * 1995 , Alistair Thomson, A crisis of masculinity? Australian military manhood in the Great War'', in Joy Damousi, Marilyn Lake (editors), ''Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century , page 138,
    • Despite his skills as a singer and storyteller, Percy sometimes felt like an outsider among the diggers, excluded by his own ideal and practice of moral manhood from the more larrikin masculinity that he perceived to be predominant.
  • * 2002 , Peter Craven, Introduction'', in ''Quarterly Essay , QE 5 2002, page iii,
    • Mungo MacCallum is hardly typecast as the chronicler of the story of what has gone right and wrong about the business of immigration, regular and irregular, to this country but this most larrikin and cold-eyed of one-time Canberra chroniclers brings to this story all his wit and dryness and power of mind.
  • * 2006 , Allon J. Uhlmann, Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia: The Social and Cultural Logic of Practice and Subjectivity , page 151,
    • Another area was occupied by a group of guests with a clearly more larrikin style, and who very much belonged to the dominated fraction.The language used was rather different (more ‘crude’ in the second one), clothing style was different too (less trendy, and much cheaper clothes in the second group), as was appearance in general (heavier tattoos in the second group, more people with bad teeth, more of the men with the working-class goatee) and the interaction was generally more boisterous.

    External links

    * (Larrikinism)

    References