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rowdy

noun

1 rowdy

A cruel and brutal fellow.

synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo.

Roget 887: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart etc. (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist, rough; ... show more

Roget 949: bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer etc. 913; sinner; the wicked etc. 945; bad example.    villain, rascal, ... show more

Dutch: barbaar, beest, beestmens, beul, bloedhond, bruut, bullebak, hooligan, kwelduivel, kwelgeest ... show more
Polish: bandyta, oprych, opryszek, rzezimieszek, zbir

adjective

1 rowdy

Disturbing the public peace; loud and rough:
— Rowdy teenagers.

synonym: raucous.

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, bad, bad boy, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boisterous, booger, boor, boorish, bounder, bourgeois ... show more.

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