dogrough (comparativemoredog rough,superlativemostdog rough)

1. Veryrowdy,disorderly, anddangerous.
   • 2007, Enda Walsh,The Walworth Farce, page48:

     Back in the days when Cork City wasdog rough, where to take a night-time stroll was an act of madness comparable to forcing long deadly skewers into your eyeballs, Cork was a jungle back then.

   • 2015, Alan Pinkett,Utta Drivel Too,→ISBN, page59:

     But the area wasn't so bad - Lower Grope, further west, was the rough bit. The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals. Where louts shout and thugs mug.Dog rough...

   • 2015, Andrew O'Hagan,The Illuminations,→ISBN, page131:

     These pubs:dog rough, if you ask me, but there you go.

2. Verydifficult andunpleasant.
   • 2007, John Malone,Heading Home,→ISBN, page46:

     “Ach, life wasdog rough back there, Tom, that it was.

   • 2010, John Lonergan,The Governor,→ISBN:

     The prison breakfast wasdog rough.

   • 2012, Shane Coleman, Michael Clifford,Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia,→ISBN:

     “It wasdog rough,” admits one Ahern supporter. A constituency delegate remembers: “The old traditional Fianna Fáil people were getting on. They were outflanked and there was often little or no resistance.”

3. Suffering theeffects ofstress orexcess.
   • 2011, Dan Tunstall,Big and Clever,→ISBN:

     “I feltdog rough on Thursday evening,” I say.

   • 2012, Cath Staincliffe,Dead to Me,→ISBN, page137:

     Cath Staincliffe sat down to plan an interview strategy for Sean Broughton the next morning she feltdog rough. Damned if she'd let it show though.

   • 2013, Corri Lee,All My Demons,→ISBN, page221:

     I shake my head, rendered mute by paralysing fear and the unwillingness to admit that I feeldog rough, and would most likely toss my cookies over her nice clean floors if I open my mouth now.