Of a person or a person's manner: violent, rough; strongly self-assertive; boisterous, exuberant.

Of persons and their actions. Rough and violent in behaviour and speech, turbulent; too rough or clamorous. (Originally in a distinctly bad…

Loud, noisy, boisterous. Cf. tory-rory, adj. 2. Obsolete (chiefly English regional (south-western) after 18th cent.).

Chiefly Scottish and English regional. Boisterous, riotous, disorderly; wild, unruly, unmanageable. Now rare except as merged with sense A. 3.

Strong-willed, headstrong; quarrelsome.

Of persons: rough-mannered, violent (in play).

Characterized by noisy roughness; wild, turbulent.

= rory-tory, adj.

= rip-roaring, adj.; boisterous, violent.

Of a person: that participates in rough and tumble (in various senses); violent, disorderly; disregarding rules or convention.

Having the manners or behaviour of a rowdy; rough, disorderly. Also (without the suggestion of violence): noisy, boisterous, disruptive.

Boisterous; rowdy, noisy; (also) relating to or creating a rowdy-dow (see sense B.).

rowdy, prodigal.

Characterized by knocking about, or dealing blows; rough, violent, boisterous.

Noisy, boisterous; = rory-tory, adj. 1.

(attributive). That is or resembles a roughhouse; boisterous, violent.