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Rocky
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- 1 Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
"a rocky mountain a rocky shore"
- 2 Easily rocked; unstable.
"The table was rocky, so we put a book under one leg."
- 3 In the style of rock music.
"His new album is quite rocky."
- 4 Like a rock; rigid, solid.
"Marsh went on as his prisoner drank. "Because you're caught in the middle of my alternate plan, Ram-Jam, which ram-jams your ass between the rockiest rock and the hardest hard place you ever imagined."
- 5 Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress. figuratively
"Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other."
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- 6 Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- 7 Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock). figuratively
- 8 Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling. archaic, figuratively
"to have a rocky heart"
- 1 full of hardship or trials wordnet
- 2 abounding in rocks or stones wordnet
- 3 causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements wordnet
- 4 liable to rock wordnet
- 1 A diminutive of the male given names Robert, Ricky, Rocco, Roch, or Rock. countable, uncountable
"‘I didn′t know your son′s name was Rocky,’ I quietly said as we started walking again. ‘It's really Richard. When he was a kid we called him Ricky, which somehow turned into Rocky. Some people call him Rocco. He gets called a lot of things.’"
- 2 Diminutive of Rock (“surname”). countable, diminutive, form-of, uncountable
- 3 Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer in a series of films. countable, uncountable
- 4 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a motion picture. countable, informal, uncountable
- 5 A placename; Diminutive of Rockhampton; the regional city of Rockhampton; a city in Queensland, Australia. Australia, countable, diminutive, form-of, informal, uncountable
"Rocky is the major city on the central Queensland coast and likes to call itself the beef capital of Australia."
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- 6 A placename; A town in Oklahoma, United States. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English rokki, rokky (“rocky”), from rok, rokke (“rock; a rock or stone; large rock by a coast or in the sea; rocky outcrop on a mountain, cliff; castle, citadel, stronghold”) [and other forms] + -i (suffix forming adjectives). Rok, rokke are derived from: * Old English *rocc (“rock”); and * Anglo-Norman roc, roce, roque, and Old French roce, roke, roque, variants of roche (“rock”); both from Medieval Latin roca, rocca; further etymology uncertain, possibly of Celtic origin. The English word is analysable as rock + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
From rock (“to move back and forth”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’). Rock is derived from Middle English rokken (“to move (something, such as a cradle) back and forth; to move or sway back and forth in an unstable manner; to go”) […], from Old English roccian (“to rock”), from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną (“to move; to move back and forth, rock”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig; to till (soil)”).
From rock (“rock and roll music”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
Diminutives with -y.
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