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rowdyism

American  
[rau-dee-iz-uhm] / ˈraʊ diˌɪz əm /

noun

  1. rough, disorderly behavior.


rowdyism British  
/ ˈraʊdɪɪzəm /

noun

  1. rowdy behaviour or tendencies or a habitual pattern of rowdy behaviour

    the problem of rowdyism at football matches

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of rowdyism

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45; rowdy + -ism


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The Eagle was of the opinion that architecture could influence behavior, noting in 1893 that there was “much less rowdyism and general law breaking in the 18th Precinct than a few years ago.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2011

Warners has surrounded him with the hilarious rowdyism of the prizefighting game in the '903, including a superb performance by Ward Bond as the great John L. himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

To keep his ballrooms free of rowdyism, Bill Karzas provides only "sweet" music, bans jitterbugging.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Way of a Transgressor, with its tone of amiable rowdyism, will remind readers of Bruce Lockhart's British Agent.

From Time Magazine Archive

The university attracted him mostly by its most undesirable features, its sports, its secret societies, its petty cliques, and its rowdyism.

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Charles Klein

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