Meanings
- rareuncountableRare form of rough talk.
He was always welcome to play at their table, when they sat down for a few rounds of cards. No roughtalk was ever indulged in when Amos was their guest.
1946, Sigurd Jay Simonsen, chapter V, in The Mongrels, New York, N.Y.: Diana Press Publishing Co., →OCLC, pages 48–492 more examples
The new musical by Larry King and Peter Masterson has some catchy dance numbers by Tommy Tune, music and one touching lyric by Carol Hall, passages of rib-tickling roughtalk, pretty and lively girls, a rather good cast.
1978 May, Harold Clurman, “The Pulitzer Prize & the Also Rans”, in Marjorie Loggia, Glenn Young, editors, The Collected Works of Harold Clurman: Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Arts, Letters and Politics, New York, N.Y.: Applause Books, published 1994, →ISBN, “The Seventies” section, page 910, column 1The play presents a kind of war of different languages: office jargon; franglais marketing jargon; old-fashioned academic language; new media slang; jazzmen’s roughtalk; salesmen’s smoothtalk; high-finance talk, etc.
1984, David Bradby, “Michel Vinaver”, in Modern French Drama 1940–1980, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 10 (Playwrights of the seventies), page 244
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