Word of the Day:
rugged
What It Means
Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.
Rugged in Context
“Hidden within 30,000 acres of rugged private land, the ranch is cocooned by peaks and canyons in all directions.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English rugged, roggyd, ruggyd, derived from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft, shagginess”), equivalent to rug (“rough, woollen material”) + -ed. Compare Old Swedish ruggoter (“wrinkled”), Swedish rugga (“to roughen”), Swedish ruggig (“shaggy”), Icelandic rögg (“shagginess”), Old Norse raggaðr (“tufted”), dialectal Danish raggad (“shaggy”).
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