toughie
Americannoun
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a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.
The sheriff was a local toughie with very little patience for outsiders.
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a difficult problem or situation.
That math test was a real toughie!
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a harsh or blunt book, movie, etc.
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The film profiles Toughie - the last living Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2022
This year, Sartore photographed Toughie, the world's last known living Rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2017
Toughie was photographed in his captive home at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
From National Geographic
Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toughie, the world's last Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog and a symbol of the extinction crisis, has died at his home in the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
From National Geographic
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