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Rowdy

//ˈɹaʊdi// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
Adjective
  1. 1
    disturbing the public peace; loud and rough wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A boisterous person; a brawler. countable

    "Carpenter recruited his gang at the saloon, rowdies all. They slept the day, drank well into the evening, and then set off for their pastime."

  2. 2
    a cruel and brutal fellow wordnet
  3. 3
    money; ready money. obsolete, slang, uncountable

    "I don’t know whether I quite approve of your throwing over Mr. P. for Mr. F., and don’t think Foker’s such a pretty name, and from your account of him he seems a muff, and not a beauty. But he has got the rowdy, which is the thing."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly from row (“noisy argument”), originally used as a noun.

Etymology 2

Possibly from row (“noisy argument”), originally used as a noun.

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