toughish

They had to sink nearly forty feet to get to the gold strata, and part of the sinking was through a toughish kind of rock.

And the resemblance was further increased by the fact that he was “a toughish lot”, who was “little, but steel and india-rubber”.

I had a toughish ride to Collingwood, and part of the way back, the latter at the suggestion of Hickey Bangs.

The tufts are from six inches to over a foot broad, very much branched, fibrous-fleshy, toughish.