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Definition of Rowdyish
1. a. Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.
Definition of Rowdyish
1. Adjective. Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy. ¹
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Definition of Rowdyish
1. tending to be rowdy [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rowdyish
Literary usage of Rowdyish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voice of the Scholar: With Other Addresses on the Problems of Higher by David Starr Jordan (1903)
"But there exists a strong feeling among rowdyish young men that the preference
of women interferes with rowdyish practices. This interference is resented by ..."
2. The Woman and the University by David Starr Jordan (1910)
"But there exists a strong ; feeling among rowdyish young men that the preference
of women interferes with rowdyish practices. This interference is resented ..."
3. The Care and Culture of Men by David Starr Jordan (1910)
"But there exists a strong feeling among rowdyish young men that the preference
of women interferes with rowdyish practices. This interference is resented by ..."
4. Trial of William W. Holden: Governor of North Carolina, Before the Senate of by William Woods Holden (1871)
"One of the charges is, the men enlisted and recruited were desperate, careless
and rowdyish and outlandish claps of men, and that if one charge that is a ..."
5. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"I felt rowdyish and "bully" (as the historian Josephus phrases it, in his fine
chapter upon the destruction of the Temple). It seemed to me that nothing ..."