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Definition of Ruggy
1. a. Rugged; rough.
Definition of Ruggy
1. Adjective. (obsolete) rugged; rough ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ruggy
1. rough and uneven [adj RUGGIER, RUGGIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruggy
Literary usage of Ruggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"Rugged, in the sense of vigorous and robust, is probably an Americanism. In other
meanings it not unfrequently resumes the old English form of ruggy, ..."
2. Selections from Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1907)
"... and ruggy ashy heres, 2025 In clothes blake, y-dropped al with teres; ...
E., rugged; rest rogi. ruggy. 2034. Only HI., has that weren. 2035. ..."
3. Selections from Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1907)
"... and ruggy ashy heres, 2025 In clothes blake, y-dropped al with teres; ...
E., rugged: rest rogi, ruggy. 2034. Only HI., has that weren. ..."
4. Glossary of Supposed Americanisms by Alfred Langdon Elwyn (1859)
"The word was formerly ruggy-, as in Chaucer:— "With ... and ruggy ashy heres."
RUMPLE. A large debt, contracted by little and little. ..."
5. Among the Gods, Scenes of India by Augusta Klein (1895)
"It is indeed a ruggy cliff, steep by nature and scarped as well, so that the
position of the fort is perhaps the strongest in India. ..."
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