roughie

¹ British  

noun

1. something unfair, esp a trick

   he put a roughie over

2. (in horse racing) an outsider that wins

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roughie ² British  

/ ˈrʌfɪ /

noun

1. Also called: orange roughy.   ruff.   tommy rough.  a small food fish of the family Arripididae , found in southern and western Australian waters

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Example Sentences

After Jim Sanders’ ”find” on his property near Nevada City in California’s Gold Country made news last year, Australian prospector Murray Cox compared pictures of Sanders’ ”Washington Nugget” with “The Orange Roughie” he unearthed near Melbourne in 1987, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

From Washington Post

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Australian prospector Murray Cox compared pictures of the “Washington Nugget” that sold for $460,000 in March with “The Orange Roughie” he unearthed near Melbourne in 1987.

From Washington Post

"The smoothie thought he could tell the roughie what to do�and he couldn't."

From Time Magazine Archive

She hemmed the sheets of the beds and the table-cloths and ever so many things, and her mamma dressed the dolls—and—oh yes, Roughie papered nearly all the rooms, and——' But here Rosalys, who seemed to be turning all of a sudden into a regular chatterbox, was interrupted by more huggings and squeezings, as Rough rather objected to much of this sort of thing, and Biddy had still a great deal to spare even after she had bestowed a full share upon Celestina.

From Project Gutenberg