rowdy

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One thing that keeps a rowdy a rowdy is the thought that better people despise him.

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  1. noun A rough, disorderly person.
  2. adjective Disorderly; rough: rowdy teenagers; a rowdy beer party.

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  • Mary Rose's guardian angels were rough and rowdy, argumentative and wary at the same time, and loud. —  Garwood, Julie - Rose 1 - For the Roses
  • I ticked Members off all the time when the House was becoming rowdy, and my long-standing friendship with Hilary's family and her position as Smith's PPS did not exempt her from my strictures Pulling up a Prime Minister, however, involves different considerations.
  • They were rowdy, as they were in the other cities of the Empire, and as one always is at that age. —  Saint Augustin
  • Many passengers were loud and rowdy, and some appeared to be intoxicated. —  Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
  • But if you're feeling a bit decadent or maybe even a bit rowdy, there's a partially glassed-in raised back section.
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boisterous ·  festive ·  ribald ·  unruly ·  raucous ·  disorderly ·  mutinous ·  tipsy ·  indelicate ·  motley ·  abusive ·  lewd
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Probably from row3.

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  1. Perhaps an abbreviation of rowdydow, noise, confusion, an imitative word transferred to a noisy, turbulent person: see rowdydow. Cf. row.
 

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