rowdy

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: row=dy

CIDE DICTIONARY

rowdy, n. [From Rout, or Row a brawl.].

 One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.  M. Arnold.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rowdy, adj. & n.
--adj. (rowdier, rowdiest) noisy and disorderly.
--n. (pl. -ies) a rowdy person.

Derivative

rowdily adv. rowdiness n. rowdyism n.

Etymology

19th-c. US, orig. = lawless backwoodsman: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

rowdy

Vulgarity

N vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, Goth, Vandal, Boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern, in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant), unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, Bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive.

Blusterer

N blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler, fanfaron, braggart, bully, terrorist, rough, bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer, Mohock, Mohawk, drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos, jingo, desperado, dare-devil, fire eater, fury, rowdy, slang-whanger, tough, puppy, prig, Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office, saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx, bantam-cock.

Bad Man

N bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity, evildoer, sinner, the wicked, bad example, villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff, wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin, tiger, monster, devil, devil incarnate, demon in human shape, Nana Sahib, hellhound, hellcat, rakehell, bad woman, jade, Jezebel, scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag, rou_e, rake, Sadist, skeesicks, skeezix, limb, one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog, rounder, lost sheep, black sheep, castaway, recreant, defaulter, prodigal, rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother, ruffian, bully, meanie, Jonathan Wild, hangman, incendiary, arsonist, fire bug, thief, murderer, terrorist, culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp, disorderly person, misdemeanant, outlaw, scofflaw, vandal, felon, (convicted criminal), criminal, convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man, multiple offender, blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak, rapscallion, rascallion, cullion, mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole, cur, dog, hound, whelp, mongrel, lown, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond, rogue, ronian, scum of the earth, riffraff, Arcades ambo, Int, sirrah!, Acherontis pabulum, gibier de potence.