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rowdies

[rou-dee] Origin

row·dy

[rou-dee] noun, plural -dies, adjective, -di·er, -di·est.
noun
1.
a rough, disorderly person.
adjective
2.
rough and disorderly: rowdy behavior at school.

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Rowdies is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1810–20, Americanism; perhaps irregular from row3

row·di·ly, adverb
row·di·ness, noun
un·row·dy, adjective


2. boisterous, unruly, obstreperous.

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rowdy
"a rough, quarrelsome person," 1808, Amer.Eng., originally "lawless backwoodsman," probably from row (3). The adjective is first recorded 1819.
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