rowdy
Use Rowdy in a sentence
di noun
1.
a rough, disorderly person.
adjective
2.
rough and disorderly: rowdy behavior at school.
Related forms
row·di·ly, adverb
row·di·ness, noun
un·row·dy, adjective
Synonyms
2. boisterous, unruly, obstreperous.
2. boisterous, unruly, obstreperous.
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| —adj , -dier, -diest | |
| 1. | tending to create noisy disturbances; rough, loud, or disorderly: a rowdy gang of football supporters |
| —n , -dier, -diest, -dies | |
| 2. | a person who behaves in a rough disorderly fashion |
| [C19: originally US slang, perhaps related to | |
| 'rowdily | |
| —adv | |
| 'rowdiness | |
| —n | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
It took a while for the consumer electronics industry to accept the rowdy new power brokers.
Inside a large thatch hut, musicians play loud, frenetic music before a crowd of rowdy onlookers.
He wanted a campus where people were close-knit, open to diversity, and not too cliquish or too rowdy.
These are not the typical rowdy drunken gamblers and their wenches revelling in the tavern.
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