roughing
SayRUF-ingUS · UK/ˈɹʌfɪŋ/AUS/ˈɹɐfɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of rough.
The referee called a penalty for roughing the goalie.
We spent the summer roughing it in a cabin with no running water.
Note
A form that does double duty. It carries the progressive (he was roughing out a sketch), and it names an action as a noun. The noun use has hardened in sport, where the offense of punching another player is itself called roughing, as in the penalty roughing the passer. The same -ing form also turns up in roughing it, meaning to endure primitive conditions.
roughing is a form of rough
rough, verb: To create or shape something in an approximate, unfinished form. Full entry
- Spelling
- rough → roughing: add -ing
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