rowdy
adjective/ˈraʊdi/
/ˈraʊdi/
(comparative rowdier, superlative rowdiest)
- (of people) making a lot of noise or likely to cause trouble synonym disorderly
- a rowdy crowd at the pub
Extra Examples- She was teaching a class of rowdy twelve-year-olds.
- Some lads were getting a bit rowdy.
- The meeting had been quite rowdy.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRowdy is used with these nouns:- bunch
- teenager
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally US in the sense ‘lawless backwoodsman’): of unknown origin.Definitions on the go
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