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roughies

roughies is the plural of roughy.

roughies is the plural of roughie.

Meaning of roughy

Noun

roughy (plural roughies)

  1. The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.
    • Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times
  2. (Australia) Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.

Meaning of roughie

Noun

roughie (plural roughies)

  1. (slang) A film portraying rough sex.
    • Wishman's film is typically classified as a roughie within sexploitation cinema.2021, Rashna Wadia Richards, Cinematic TV: Serial Drama Goes to the Movies, page 97

Phrases with roughies

Questions about roughies

What is roughies the plural of?
Roughies is the plural of roughy.

Words near roughies in the dictionary

  1. roughhouser
  2. roughhousers
  3. roughhouses
  4. roughhousing
  5. roughie
  6. roughies
  7. roughing
  8. roughing fluid
  9. roughing fluids
  10. roughing it
  11. roughing mill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roughies (page history and authors); roughy (page history and authors); roughie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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