grosseirão — meaning in English
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English meaning
- roughneck noun A labourer on an oil rig or in the oilpatch, either skilled or semiskilled.
Senses
grosseirão is used for these senses in English:
- roughneck (colloquial, chiefly, US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person. [from 19th c.]
roughneck — full definition
- noun A labourer on an oil rig or in the oilpatch, either skilled or semiskilled.
- noun A manual worker in a low-paid, dirty job, such as in an iron or steel works.
- noun (informal) A person who behaves in a rough, badly-mannered way.
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