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Definition of Toughish
1. a. Tough in a slight degree.
Definition of Toughish
1. Adjective. Somewhat tough. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toughish
1. somewhat tough [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toughish
Literary usage of Toughish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... when new, it is toughish, yet easy to break ; but by age it be comes harder
and more brittle, loses its fine color and in a great measure its smell. ..."
2. On diphtheria by Edward Headlam Greenhow (1861)
"The epiglottis was covered pretty extensively by a toughish adherent membrane,
about half a line thick; and a similar formation, in less abundance, ..."
3. Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen by Harry Hieover (1846)
"When Mr. Hercules set himself about cleansing certain Augean stables (not kept
quite as stables are now-a-days), it will be allowed he undertook a toughish ..."
4. General Report on the Work Carried on by the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India, C. L. Griesbach (1900)
"The fossils were found in a band of toughish shale interbedded in the siliceous
limestones. A band of ironstone occurs a little below the fossiliferous ..."
5. A Parody Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1904)
"He took his ton-weight brief in hand, Long time the hidden clue he sought, Then
rested he by the Hawkins tree, And sat awhile in thought. And as in toughish ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"Almost its whole substance, which is composed of small toughish membranes,
represents some little crooked dark ..."
7. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"... pouting and fretting she is tried with. My own health is not fundamentally hurt.
Eest will cure me. I must be a toughish kind of a lath after all; ..."
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