ruffian

Speech parts

1. ruffian - Noun

2. ruffian - Adjective

3. ruffian - Verb

Meaning

A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.

A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.

brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.

To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tough bully rowdy hooligan roughneck YOB yobo yobbo hun lech harrier cad hood rascal marauder
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Antonyms

ponce hero doormat milksop good guy good egg
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Hypernyms

attacker aggressor assailant assaulter

Hyponyms

skin muscle skinhead muscleman plug-ugly bullyboy

Phrases with the word

burly ruffian

Anagrams

funfair

Examples

Along with shinobi, some examples include monomi ("one who sees"), nokizaru (" macaque on the roof"), rappa ("ruffian"), kusa ("grass") and Iga-mono ("one from Iga"). Source: Internet

Block, p. 175 Louise is seduced by the ruffian boy during her Act 2 ballet, set around the ruins of a carousel. Source: Internet

Dickson (1982), p. 230. The term eventually came to describe "a young male hustler, a gangster, a hoodlum, or a ruffian". Source: Internet

Clay Cox, local ruffian and small-time criminal. Source: Internet

For example a Catalonian prisoner called Paquito Exposito is portrayed for English readers as a kind of cockney ruffian whose dialogue could have come straight from an Eastenders script, "But I ain't spread nowt, Director, sir. Source: Internet

In like vein, the term yahoo is often encountered as a synonym for ruffian or thug. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Ruffell ruffemans ruffer ruffianage ruffiandom ruffianhood