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UK
/tˈʌfi/
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[ US /ˈtəfi/ ]
[ US /ˈtəfi/ ]
NOUN
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
How To Use toughie In A Sentence
- That's a toughie, or should have been, but isn't, because difficult issues, such as paternity suits, or a grown man in an elf costume wanting to play with other people's children, are brushed under the carpet.
- When the going gets tough, you toughies really do get up - so make the extra effort this week to help others not fortunate enough to have been born Capricorns with some of your true grit, fortitude and soul support.
- Personally I didn't think that toughie who used the back of his hand on me before I could talk was interested. SKORPION'S DEATH
- That's a toughie - but here's one strong opinion of why each of the eight would win if it went toe-to-toe with the Bulldogs.
- `Sweetie you're a toughie aren't you you think we can be all right? RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
- College students are held in low esteem, thanks to commercial movies that regularly feature youth as toughies amid free-flowing booze, drugs, and gals.
- So it does not make sense to solve a toughie and impress the examiner (which anyway will be a computer).
- While we wondered at their street-corner, street-clothed hardiness a couple of other toughies turned up.
- I may be an interior designer but I am a toughie - and that's part due to my Yorkshire background, I'm sure.
- But some students cracked real toughies, too, without batting an eyelid.