rowdy
[rou-dee]
- a rough, disorderly person.
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- rough and disorderly: rowdy behavior at school.
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Origin of rowdy
Synonyms
See more synonyms for rowdy on Thesaurus.com2. boisterous, unruly, obstreperous.
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He drank a little, but rowdily, and managed to spend in a cheap tavern like the Volga as much as twenty roubles in an evening.
The House with the Mezzanine and Other StoriesAnton Tchekoff
rowdy
- tending to create noisy disturbances; rough, loud, or disorderlya rowdy gang of football supporters
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- a person who behaves in a rough disorderly fashion
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Word Origin
C19: originally US slang, perhaps related to row ³
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Word Origin and History for rowdily
rowdy
n.
"a rough, quarrelsome person," 1808, American English, originally "lawless backwoodsman," probably from row (n.2). The adjective is first recorded 1819. Related: Rowdily; rowdiness.
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