rowdy

4 definitions found

rowdy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Rowdy \Row"dy\, n.; pl. Rowdies. [From Rout, or Row a
     brawl.]
     One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly
     fellow. --M. Arnold.
     [1913 Webster]

rowdy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  rowdy
      adj 1: disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous
             party"; "rowdy teenagers" [syn: raucous, rowdy]
      n 1: a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: bully, tough,
           hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo,
           yobbo]

rowdy - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Rowdy, KY
    Zip code(s): 41367

rowdy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  185 Moby Thesaurus words for "rowdy":
     Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, bad, bad boy, battler, belligerent,
     belted knight, bickerer, blade, blaring, blatant, blatting,
     blustering, boisterous, booger, boor, boorish, bounder, bourgeois,
     brassy, bravo, brawler, brawling, brazen, bucko, buffoon, bugger,
     bully, bullyboy, cad, carlish, churl, churlish, clamant, clamorous,
     clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, cloddish, clown,
     clownish, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cutthroat,
     cutup, desperado, devil, disorderly, disputant, disruptive,
     duelist, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, epicier, fencer, feuder,
     fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, funmaker, gamecock, gladiator,
     goon, gorilla, groundling, gunman, guttersnipe, harum-scarum,
     hatchet man, hell-raiser, hellcat, hood, hoodlum, hooligan,
     hooliganish, ill-bred fellow, imp, improper, joker, jokester,
     jouster, killer, knave, knight, knock-down-and-drag-out,
     knockabout, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, looby,
     loobyish, loud, lout, loutish, low fellow, lubberly, lumpish,
     mad dog, mafficking, militant, minx, misbehaving, mischief,
     mischief-maker, mucker, naughty, noiseful, noisy, not respectable,
     nouveau riche, obstreperous, off-base, out-of-line, parvenu,
     peasant, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker, prankster, puck, punk,
     quarreler, rackety, raffish, rambunctious, rampageous, rapscallion,
     rascal, raucous, ribald, rioter, rip-roaring, rival, rogue,
     roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, roughneck,
     rowdyish, ruffian, ruffianly, rumbustious, sabreur, scamp,
     scapegrace, scrapper, scuffler, skinhead, squabbler, strepitant,
     strepitous, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler,
     swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, termagant, thug,
     tilter, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, tussler, unbehaving, unruly,
     uproarious, upstart, vociferous, vulgarian, vulgarist, wag, wild,
     wrangler, yahoo, yokel, yokelish