Meaning

3 senses
  1. (informal)A person who can endure physical or mental hardship; a hardened, strong-willed person.

    Überlebenskünstler, harter Knochen, zäher Bursche

  2. (informal)A hardy, resilient animal or plant.

  3. (informal)Something troublesome or difficult to handle.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Tom is a tough cookie.

    ruТом — крепкий орешек. — odexed

    deTom ist abgebrüht. — wolfgangth

  2. Tom is one tough cookie.

  3. He's a tough cookie.

    Він крутий пацан. — deniko

    deEr ist abgebrüht. — Dani6187

  4. She's a tough cookie.

    Вона міцний горішок. — deniko

    deSie lässt sich nicht unterkriegen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. He is a tough cookie.

    Він міцний горішок. — deniko

    ruОн твёрдый орешек. — odexed

    deEr ist abgebrüht. — Dani6187

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person who can endure physical or mental hardship:

Forms

plural: tough cookies
Singulartough cookie
Pluraltough cookies

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
person able to endure hardship:survivorB1trooper

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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