rocky

Meaning

Adjective

• Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
• Like a rock; rigid, solid.
• Of an animal or plant: having a habitat around on on rocks.
• Not easily affected or impressed; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.
• Easily rocked; unstable.
• In the style of rock music.

Origin

• . Rok, rokke are derived from:
• Old English *rocc; and
• Anglo-Norman roc, roce, roque, and Old French roce, roke, roque, variants of roche;
• both from Medieval Latin roca, rocca; further etymology uncertain, possibly of Celtic origin. The English word is analysable as rock + -y.
• From rock + -y. Rock is derived from Middle English rokken, from Old English roccian, from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-.
• From rock + -y.