rowdy

adjectif

1. 1

   Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.

nom

1. 1

   A boisterous person; a brawler.

   Carpenter recruited his gang at the saloon, rowdies all. They slept the day, drank well into the evening, and then set off for their pastime.

2. 2

   obsolètemoney; ready money.

   I don’t know whether I quite approve of your throwing over Mr. P. for Mr. F., and don’t think Foker’s such a pretty name, and from your account of him he seems a muff, and not a beauty. But he has got the rowdy, which is the thing.

   "Where's your money?" Jack exclaimed, hoarsely, in a well-feigned voice. "Ah! where's the rowdy?" iterated Clayton, in a tone it was impossible to conceal. "I have no money — none — save a few guineas; there — there — in my pocket […]

Formes

pluriel

rowdies

comparatif

rowdier

superlatif

rowdiest