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    Rowdy \Row"dy\, n.; pl. Rowdies. [From Rout, or Row a
    brawl.]
    One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly
    fellow. --M. Arnold.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    rowdy
    adj : disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous
    party"; "rowdy teenagers" [syn: raucous]
    n : a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: bully, tough, hooligan,
    ruffian, roughneck, yob, yobo, yobbo]
    [also: rowdiest, rowdier]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    185 Moby Thesaurus words for "rowdy":
    Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, bad, bad boy, battler, belligerent,
    belted knight, bickerer, blade, blaring, blatant, blatting,
    blustering, boisterous, booger, boor, boorish, bounder, bourgeois,
    brassy, bravo, brawler, brawling, brazen, bucko, buffoon, bugger,
    bully, bullyboy, cad, carlish, churl, churlish, clamant, clamorous,
    clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, cloddish, clown,
    clownish, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cutthroat,
    cutup, desperado, devil, disorderly, disputant, disruptive,
    duelist, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, epicier, fencer, feuder,
    fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, funmaker, gamecock, gladiator,
    goon, gorilla, groundling, gunman, guttersnipe, harum-scarum,
    hatchet man, hell-raiser, hellcat, hood, hoodlum, hooligan,
    hooliganish, ill-bred fellow, imp, improper, joker, jokester,
    jouster, killer, knave, knight, knock-down-and-drag-out,
    knockabout, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, looby,
    loobyish, loud, lout, loutish, low fellow, lubberly, lumpish,
    mad dog, mafficking, militant, minx, misbehaving, mischief,
    mischief-maker, mucker, naughty, noiseful, noisy, not respectable,
    nouveau riche, obstreperous, off-base, out-of-line, parvenu,
    peasant, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker, prankster, puck, punk,
    quarreler, rackety, raffish, rambunctious, rampageous, rapscallion,
    rascal, raucous, ribald, rioter, rip-roaring, rival, rogue,
    roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, roughneck,
    rowdyish, ruffian, ruffianly, rumbustious, sabreur, scamp,
    scapegrace, scrapper, scuffler, skinhead, squabbler, strepitant,
    strepitous, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler,
    swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, termagant, thug,
    tilter, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, tussler, unbehaving, unruly,
    uproarious, upstart, vociferous, vulgarian, vulgarist, wag, wild,
    wrangler, yahoo, yokel, yokelish

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


    Rowdy, KY
    Zip code(s): 41367

    U.S. Gazetteer (1990)




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