英和和英

名詞

roughneck (複数形 roughnecks)

1. (colloquial, chiefly US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person. [from 19th c.]
   • 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 202:

     LaTisha has long wanted to show Carole sheʼs not the roughneck she used to be, the roughneck who wasnʼt good enough to be her friend.

2. (colloquial, chiefly US) An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer. [from 20th c.]
3. (colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig. [from 20th c.]
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 286:

     As for the minerals, there has been a good deal of drilling along the big river; trucks and roughnecks no longer garner any notice.

参考

• roustabout, oil trash
• roughneck on Wikipedia.

動詞

roughneck (三人称単数 現在形 roughnecks, 現在分詞 roughnecking, 過去形および過去分詞形 roughnecked)

1. To work as a laborer on an oil rig.
   • 2009, January 13, “Michael Brick”, in Racing's Last Frontier‎^[1]:

     There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope […]