roughtalk

Rare form of rough talk.

Noun

  1. Rare 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,...
    • 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....
    • The 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. -...