rochness
Scots
    
    
Noun
    
rochness (uncountable)
- roughness
- 1895, Ian Maclaren, A Doctor of the Old School, page 175:- He hed juist ae faut, tae ma thinkin’, for a’ never jidged the waur o’ him for his titch of rochness—guid trees hae gnarled bark—but he thotched ower little o’ himsel’.- He had just one fault, to my thinking, for I never begrudged his touch of roughness—good trees have knotty bark—but he thought too low of himself.
 
 
 
- abundance, plenty, bounty
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