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Rockish

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a rock; stony; (figuratively) hard; callous

    "God did strike them with Egyptian and Babylonish rods, but there were no tears, no relentings, no returnings, but grew harder and harder, even to a rockish hardiness."

  2. 2
    That has the characteristics of rock music.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From rock (“stone”) + -ish.

Etymology 2

From rock (“rock music”) + -ish. Piecewise doublet of rockesque.

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