rowdy

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

▪ I. rowdy [rowdy rowdier rowdiest rowdies] BrE [ˈraʊdi] NAmE [ˈraʊdi] adjective (row·dier, row·di·est)(of people)
making a lot of noise or likely to cause trouble
Syn: ↑disorderly
•a rowdy crowd at the pub
Derived Words: ↑rowdily ▪ ↑rowdiness

Word Origin:
early 19th cent. (originally US in the sense ‘lawless backwoodsman’): of unknown origin.

Example Bank:
•He described the students as ‘rowdies and troublemakers’.


Example Bank:
•She was teaching a class of rowdy twelve-year-olds.
•Some lads were getting a bit rowdy.
•The meeting had been quite rowdy.
 
▪ II. rowdy noun (pl. rowdies)
•rowdies and troublemakers
Main entry: ↑rowdy_derived

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  raucous, bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, yob, yobo, yobbo