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Definition of Rough-and-ready
1. Adjective. Crude but effective for the purpose at hand.
Definition of Rough-and-ready
1. Adjective. crude but effective ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rough-and-ready
Literary usage of Rough-and-ready
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"371, App. Old Rough and Ready. Zachary Taylor. 1846 Col. Taylor, who was now also
a Brigadier General by brevet, and who had won for himself by his gallant ..."
2. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... leader of a party called the Rough and Ready Company from Shellsburg, Wisconsin,
built a cabin at Rough and Ready, eight miles west of Nevada. ..."
3. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1897)
"... leader of a party called the Rough and Ready Company from Shellsburg, Wisconsin,
built a cabin at Rough and Ready, eight miles west of Nevada. ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The chief difficulty in road-making is the bridging of streams, for which the
rough and ready methods of the ..."
5. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"for natural magic; a rough-and-ready critic easily credits them and the Germans
with the Celtic fineness of tact, the Celtic nearness to nature and her ..."
6. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"V for natural magic; a rough-and-ready critic easily credits them and the Germans
with the Celtic fineness of tact, the Celtic nearness to nature and her ..."
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