dog rough

Adjective

dog rough (comparative more dog rough, superlative most dog rough)

1. Very rowdy, disorderly, and dangerous.
   • Back in the days when Cork City was dog rough, where to take a night-time stroll was an act of madness comparable to forcing long deadly skewers into your eyeballs, Cork was a jungle back then.2007, Enda Walsh, The Walworth Farce, page 48
   • But the area wasn't so bad - Lower Grope, further west, was the rough bit. The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals. Where louts shout and thugs mug. Dog rough...2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, →ISBN, page 59
2. Very difficult and unpleasant.
   • “Ach, life was dog rough back there, Tom, that it was.2007, John Malone, Heading Home, →ISBN, page 46
   • The prison breakfast was dog rough.2010, John Lonergan, The Governor, →ISBN
3. Suffering the effects of stress or excess.
   • “I felt dog rough on Thursday evening,” I say.2011, Dan Tunstall, Big and Clever, →ISBN
   • Cath Staincliffe sat down to plan an interview strategy for Sean Broughton the next morning she felt dog rough. Damned if she'd let it show though.2012, Cath Staincliffe, Dead to Me, →ISBN, page 137