English
roughish
From rough + -ish.
A compound of rough + -ish
Proto-Germanic *rūhaz ‘rough, hairy’
Old English rūh ‘rough’
Middle English rough ‘rough’
English rough
Today it means
adj Somewhat rough.
Sources
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