Rowdie

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of rowdy. alt-of, archaic

    "But if no constable was to be had, or, worse still, if the constable was himself a rowdie, commend us to a Nehemiah who, to build the wall of Jerusalem in troublous times, can handle the sword as alertly as the trowel."

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"But if no constable was to be had, or, worse still, if the constable was himself a rowdie, commend us to a Nehemiah who, to build the wall of Jerusalem in troublous times, can handle the sword as alertly as the trowel."

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