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rough and tumble en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rough-and-tumble.
   alt of rough-and-tumble

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most rough and tumble	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more rough and tumble	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

rough and tumble en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rough-and-tumble.
   alt of rough-and-tumble
   • Everyone fought in these rough and tumbles for the mastery of what was to become one of the world's largest industries. 1947, Leslie Wood, Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Evreinov, Harry Alan Towers, Leslie Scott Mitchell, The March of the Movies, page 174:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
rough and tumbles	Number=Plur		lexicographic

rough and tumble en · VERB

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rough-and-tumble.
   alt of rough-and-tumble
   • Daddy holds, hugs, kisses, and caresses his young daughter but he rough and tumbles, throws around, and mock fights with his little son. 2000, Herb Goldberg, The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege, page 63:
   • They clinched again, tumbled onto the grass, rough and tumbled, with first one and then the other on top, socking away. 1932, James T. Farrell, Young Lonigan:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
rough and tumbling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
rough and tumbled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
rough and tumbled	Tense=Past		lexicographic
rough and tumbles	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic