1. ruffian - Noun
2. ruffian - Adjective
3. ruffian - Verb
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 dictionaryAlong 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