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Etymology

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over- +‎ rough

Adjective

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overrough

  1. Excessively rough.
    • 1878, A Modern Symposium: Subjects: The Soul and Future Life, page 140:
      And as many of us want the shaking now badly enough, I can thank him for it, although it is administered by an overrough and contemptuous hand.
    • 2015, Fredson Thayer Bowers, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642, page 231:
      Columbo is not wholly an evil but more an overrough and cruel man who lacks entirely the finer sensibilities which would have released Rosaura from her painful contract.