HARDSHIP
ADJECTIVES
1960 — RAININ’ characterized by hard times → Amer. sl.
NOUNS
1175 — WANDRETH misery, distress, hardship; adversity, poverty → obs.
1300 — TORFER hardship, trouble, distress; harm, mischief, injury → obs.
1375 — SHOWER a stroke of misfortune; a hardship or difficulty; an injury → obs.
1400 — HARDLAIK hardship, harshness, severity → obs.
1412 — TOLERANCE the act of enduring or sustaining pain or hardship; the power or capacity of enduring; endurance → obs.
1588 — WANTS straits; circumstances or times of want, hardship, suffering, etc. → obs.
..E19 — HARDS hard times → sl.
1890 — SCUFFLE difficulty; great hardship → African-American sl.
..L19 — GAFF severe treatment, criticism, punishment, or hardship → US sl.
1913 — HARD SLEDDIN’ poverty, hardship, misery → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1950 — DUES the hardships which you must endure to obtain success → Amer. sl.
PHRASES
1430 — THE MALE WRINGS something is wrong, there is a state of hardship → obs.
1960 — RAININ’ ALL OVER characterized by harder times → Amer. sl.
VERBS
1531 — TOLERATE to endure, to sustain pain or hardship → obs.
1894 — DO A PERISH to reach or be in a state of extreme privation; to suffer hardship; to die, esp. of thirst → Aust. colloq.
1898 — BLEED WHITE to cause someone hardship by cutting all their supplies off, to drain completely of resources
1920 — TAKE IT ON THE CHIN to suffer hardship and adversity without complaint → orig. US
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