English
roughy
From rough + -y.
Formed from rough + -y
Proto-Germanic *rūhaz ‘rough, hairy’
Old English rūh ‘rough’
Middle English rough ‘rough’
English rough
Today it means
noun The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.
Sources
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Etymograph / roughy