- rowdy / quarrelsome person
- Общая лексика: эпатник (человек, который сознательно ведет себя вызывающе)
Универсальный англо-русский словарь. Академик.ру. 2011.
Универсальный англо-русский словарь. Академик.ру. 2011.
rowdy — (n.) a rough, quarrelsome person, 1808, Amer.Eng., originally lawless backwoodsman, probably from ROW (Cf. row) (n.2). The adjective is first recorded 1819 … Etymology dictionary
rowdy — ☆ rowdy [rou′dē ] n. pl. rowdies [< ? ROW3] a person whose behavior is rough, quarrelsome, and disorderly; hoodlum adj. rowdier, rowdiest having the nature of or characteristic of a rowdy; rough, quarrelsome, etc. rowdily adv. rowdiness n.… … English World dictionary
rowdy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. ruffian, tough, hoodlum, bully, thug. See evildoer, vulgarity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. boisterous, disorderly, rough; see loud 2 , unruly . n. Syn. roisterer, brawler, hooligan, tough, ruffian,… … English dictionary for students
roughneck — ☆ roughneck [ruf′nek΄ ] n. 1. Informal a rough, crude person, esp. one who is quarrelsome and disorderly; rowdy 2. a worker on an oil drilling rig, esp. a member of the crew which feeds pipe into the well vi. to work as a roughneck roughnecking n … English World dictionary