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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rowdyish

1. tending to be rowdy [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rowdyish

rowboat
rowboats
rowdedow
rowdedows
rowdie
rowdier
rowdies
rowdiest
rowdily
rowdiness
rowdinesses
rowdy
rowdydow
rowdydowdy
rowdydows
rowdyish (current term)
rowdyism
rowdyisms
rowed
roweite
rowel
roweled
roweling
rowelled
rowelling
rowels
rowen
rowens
rower
rowers

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 ..."

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