rocky
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒki/
The English word “rocky” has 9 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.
- Having little or no money; stony broke.
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- In the style of rock music.
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”);…
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