tough

Etymology
From, , , , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , , , 🇨🇬, dialectal German.

Adjective

 * 1)  Strong and resilient; sturdy.
 * 2)  Difficult to cut or chew.
 * 3)  Rugged or physically hardy.
 * 4)  Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.
 * 5)  Harsh or severe.
 * 6) Rowdy or rough.
 * 7)  Difficult or demanding.
 * 8) * 1998, Lois Liederman Davitz, Joel Robert Davitz, 20 Tough Questions Teenagers Ask and 20 Tough Answers, Paulist Press, pages 6-7,
 * But let's get back to the tough question about sex before marriage. And this is a tough question. In fact we would rank the question you've both raised as pretty high on our list of tough questions.
 * 1) * 2010, Rushworth M. Kidder, Good Kids, Tough Choices, (Jossey-Bass), page 96,
 * What Lara faced, in fact, falls right into the pool of light beneath our second lens: making tough choices.
 * 1)  Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
 * 2) Strict, not lenient.
 * 1) * 1998, Lois Liederman Davitz, Joel Robert Davitz, 20 Tough Questions Teenagers Ask and 20 Tough Answers, Paulist Press, pages 6-7,
 * But let's get back to the tough question about sex before marriage. And this is a tough question. In fact we would rank the question you've both raised as pretty high on our list of tough questions.
 * 1) * 2010, Rushworth M. Kidder, Good Kids, Tough Choices, (Jossey-Bass), page 96,
 * What Lara faced, in fact, falls right into the pool of light beneath our second lens: making tough choices.
 * 1)  Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
 * 2) Strict, not lenient.
 * 1)  Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
 * 2) Strict, not lenient.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: righin
 * Italian: ,
 * Khmer: ,
 * Maori: kākatikati, pūioio, kākoa
 * Mongolian:
 * Pashto: کلک
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: toag
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: righinn
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: khó nhai,


 * Armenian:
 * Basque: gogor
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Friulian: dûr
 * Georgian: გამძლე
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: सख़्त,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Maori: pūioio
 * Mongolian:
 * Pashto: کلک,
 * Plautdietsch: toag
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fulangach, tapaidh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მკაცრი
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer:
 * Maori: taikaha
 * Mongolian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: უხეში, ხულიგანი
 * Greek:
 * Khmer:
 * Mongolian:
 * Portuguese: durão
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Mongolian:
 * Pashto: ګران
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: de mano dura
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: მტკიცე
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: ,

Interjection

 * If you don't like it, tough!
 * If you don't like it, tough!

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Pech gehabt
 * Spanish: ni modo
 * Swedish: trist för dig

Noun

 * 1) A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.

Translations

 * Greek:
 * Portuguese:
 * Yiddish: שטאַרקער


 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: ,
 * Lingala: ,

Verb

 * 1) To endure.
 * 2) To toughen.
 * 1) To toughen.
 * 1) To toughen.
 * 1) To toughen.

Etymology

 * see also 🇨🇬.