Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Disorderly; rough.
- noun A rough, disorderly person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A riotous, turbulent fellow; a person given to quarreling and fighting; a rough.
- Having the characteristics of a rowdy; given to rowdyism; rough; coarse-grained; disreputable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
rough anddisorderly ;riotous or justboisterous - noun A boisterous person; a
brawler .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cruel and brutal fellow
- adjective disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In fact, he's apologized for what he calls his rowdy, playful behavior, saying it was a mistake.
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"Charlie was rowdy from the beginning like he had been drinking prior."
Denise Richards Met Charlie Sheen's Hooker: Report Katy Hall 2010
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"Charlie was rowdy from the beginning like he had been drinking prior."
Denise Richards Met Charlie Sheen's Hooker: Report Katy Hall 2010
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Only place i've ever seen a tasting room get a little rowdy is Pindar, but that's because it's so damn big it's more like a bar.
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They ruled themselves democratically, electing chieftains in rowdy, informal village assemblies known as krugi ( "circles").
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They ruled themselves democratically, electing chieftains in rowdy, informal village assemblies known as krugi ( "circles").
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They ruled themselves democratically, electing chieftains in rowdy, informal village assemblies known as krugi ( "circles").
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That's why even the fiends on Fox instinctively cringed when Williams skipped past the carefully managed Tea Party linguistic jujitsu and got to the point: Obama is the enemy of Hank Williams Jr. and the like-minde d people he describes as his "rowdy" friends.
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Campbell was described as a "rowdy and abusive" passenger who at one point warned that he would "off people when they left the plane," according to the Crown prosecutor.
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Nick Benecke and his friends and fellow students at Nashua North said they had never witnessed the fever pitch - calling it "rowdy" - that protesters and supporters reached when Obama rode through.
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