See rough and ready on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "more rough and ready",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most rough and ready",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "more"
},
"expansion": "rough and ready (comparative more rough and ready, superlative most rough and ready)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English coordinated pairs",
"parents": [
"Coordinated pairs",
"Terms by etymology"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1849, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 15, in The Sea Lions:",
"text": "[A] dozen Americans could, at any time, construct a house, the ‘rough and ready’ habits of the people usually teaching them, in a rude way, a good deal of a great many other arts, besides this of the carpenter.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXV, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 291:",
"text": "There was a rough and ready rule-of-thumb test of truth[…]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996 December 4, Roderick Conway Morris, “10 Years of Enlightenment: An Unusual Orchestra Celebrates”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-04:",
"text": "\"Things were a lot more rough and ready, but there was a kind of raw beauty about it.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004 November 8, Michael D. Lemonick, Bryan Walsh, “How We Grew So Big”, in Time, retrieved 2014-06-04:",
"text": "Doctors define overweight and obesity by a rough-and-ready measurement called the body mass index (BMI).",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough."
],
"id": "en-rough_and_ready-en-adj-U-DMGnqj",
"links": [
[
"hyphenate",
"hyphenate"
],
[
"Crude",
"crude"
],
[
"unpolished",
"unpolished"
],
[
"fit",
"fit"
]
],
"qualifier": "often hyphenated when placed immediately before the modified noun",
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, often hyphenated when placed immediately before the modified noun) Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough."
],
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"British"
],
"word": "cheap and cheerful"
},
{
"word": "diamond in the rough"
},
{
"word": "quick-and-dirty"
},
{
"word": "rough around the edges"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "rough-and-ready"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-rough and ready.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/En-au-rough_and_ready.ogg/En-au-rough_and_ready.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/En-au-rough_and_ready.ogg"
}
],
"word": "rough and ready"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "more rough and ready",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most rough and ready",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "more"
},
"expansion": "rough and ready (comparative more rough and ready, superlative most rough and ready)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"British"
],
"word": "cheap and cheerful"
},
{
"word": "diamond in the rough"
},
{
"word": "quick-and-dirty"
},
{
"word": "rough around the edges"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English coordinated pairs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1849, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 15, in The Sea Lions:",
"text": "[A] dozen Americans could, at any time, construct a house, the ‘rough and ready’ habits of the people usually teaching them, in a rude way, a good deal of a great many other arts, besides this of the carpenter.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXV, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 291:",
"text": "There was a rough and ready rule-of-thumb test of truth[…]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996 December 4, Roderick Conway Morris, “10 Years of Enlightenment: An Unusual Orchestra Celebrates”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-04:",
"text": "\"Things were a lot more rough and ready, but there was a kind of raw beauty about it.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004 November 8, Michael D. Lemonick, Bryan Walsh, “How We Grew So Big”, in Time, retrieved 2014-06-04:",
"text": "Doctors define overweight and obesity by a rough-and-ready measurement called the body mass index (BMI).",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough."
],
"links": [
[
"hyphenate",
"hyphenate"
],
[
"Crude",
"crude"
],
[
"unpolished",
"unpolished"
],
[
"fit",
"fit"
]
],
"qualifier": "often hyphenated when placed immediately before the modified noun",
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, often hyphenated when placed immediately before the modified noun) Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-rough and ready.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/En-au-rough_and_ready.ogg/En-au-rough_and_ready.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/En-au-rough_and_ready.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "rough-and-ready"
}
],
"word": "rough and ready"
}
Download raw JSONL data for rough and ready meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.