dog rough

Definitions

1. 1

   Very rowdy, disorderly, and dangerous.

   • Back in the days when Cork City was dog rough, where to take a night-time stroll was an act of madness comparable to forcing long deadly skewers into your eyeballs, Cork was a jungle back then.
   • But the area wasn't so bad - Lower Grope, further west, was the rough bit. The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals. Where louts shout and thugs mug. Dog rough...
   • These pubs: dog rough, if you ask me, but there you go.
2. 2

   Very difficult and unpleasant.

   • “Ach, life was dog rough back there, Tom, that it was.
   • The prison breakfast was dog rough.
   • “It was dog rough,” admits one Ahern supporter. A constituency delegate remembers: “The old traditional Fianna Fáil people were getting on. They were outflanked and there was often little or no resistance.”
3. 3

   Suffering the effects of stress or excess.

   • “I felt dog rough on Thursday evening,” I say.
   • Cath Staincliffe sat down to plan an interview strategy for Sean Broughton the next morning she felt dog rough. Damned if she'd let it show though.
   • I shake my head, rendered mute by paralysing fear and the unwillingness to admit that I feel dog rough, and would most likely toss my cookies over her nice clean floors if I open my mouth now.

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