ill vs rough-and-tumble

ill

noun
  • Harm or injury. 

  • A physical ailment; an illness. 

  • PCP, phencyclidine. 

  • Evil; moral wrongfulness. 

  • Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. 

adv
  • Not well; imperfectly, badly 

adj
  • Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. 

  • Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. 

  • Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. 

  • Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be. 

  • Having an urge to vomit. 

  • Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard. 

verb
  • To behave aggressively. 

rough-and-tumble

noun
  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • An environment of rough activity 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

How often have the words ill and rough-and-tumble occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )