Hyphenation of roughneck

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word roughneck? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

rough-neck

Definitions of roughneck:

1.	A cruel and brutal fellow

Synonyms of roughneck:

noun	bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo, attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter

Last hyphenations of this language

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