roughtalk

See also: rough talk

English

Noun

roughtalk (uncountable)

  1. Rare form of rough talk.
    • 1946, Sigurd Jay Simonsen, chapter V, in The Mongrels, New York, N.Y.: Diana Press Publishing Co., →OCLC, pages 48–49:
      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.
    • 1978 May, Harold Clurman, “The Pulitzer Prize & the Also Rans”, in Marjorie Loggia, Glenn Young, editors, The Collected Works of Harold Clurman: Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Arts, Letters and Politics, New York, N.Y.: Applause Books, published 1994, →ISBN, “The Seventies” section, page 910, column 1:
      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.
    • 1984, David Bradby, “Michel Vinaver”, in Modern French Drama 1940–1980, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 10 (Playwrights of the seventies), page 244:
      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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