Meaning of roughtalk | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare form of rough talk.

form-of, rare, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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