roughnecked
Brash and unrefined
Roughnecked describes someone tough, crude, or rowdy in manner—the adjective form of roughneck.
A roughneck is an unskilled oil-rig worker or more broadly anyone rough and uncultured: a roughnecked crew of dockworkers, his roughnecked approach to negotiations.
The word suggests physical toughness paired with coarse behavior.
One who bores holes
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- roustaboutUnskilled transient worker
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
wellhead · petroleum · crude · offshore · fracking · wildcatting · pumpjack · completion
Made tough or unfeeling
- brawlerHabitual fist-fighter
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- grittyCoarse or courageous
- tenaciousStubbornly determined to continue
unpolished · intimidating · pugnacious · aggressive · formidable · unflinching · scrappy · grizzled
Ropes controlling ship sails
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
- ironworkerStructural metal craftsman
- welderOne who fuses metals
- pipelayerOne who installs underground conduits
boilermaker · manual · physical · heavy · jackhammer · crane · backhoe · bulldozer
driller
One who bores holes
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- roustaboutUnskilled transient worker
derrick · wellhead · petroleum · crude · offshore · fracking · wildcatting · pumpjack · completion · casing
hardened
Made tough or unfeeling
- brawlerHabitual fist-fighter
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- grittyCoarse or courageous
tenacious · unpolished · intimidating · pugnacious · aggressive · formidable · unflinching · scrappy · grizzled · weathered
rigging
Ropes controlling ship sails
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
- ironworkerStructural metal craftsman
- welderOne who fuses metals
pipelayer · boilermaker · manual · physical · heavy · jackhammer · crane · backhoe · bulldozer · excavation
roughneckedgenteel
Affectedly polite or refined
refined · cultured · polished · sophisticated · well-mannered
roughneckedaristocratic
Of hereditary nobility
upper-crust · patrician · highborn · well-bred · blue-blooded