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Harsh
Definitions
- 1 Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
- 2 Severe or cruel.
"harsh decision"
- 1 sharply disagreeable; rigorous wordnet
- 2 severe wordnet
- 3 unkind or cruel or uncivil wordnet
- 4 unpleasantly stern wordnet
- 5 unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses wordnet
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- 6 of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 1 To negatively criticize. ambitransitive, slang
"Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!"
- 2 To put a damper on (a mood). ambitransitive, slang
"Dude, you're harshing my buzz."
Etymology
From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.
From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.
From the German surname, Americanized from Harsch, from the adjective harsch.
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