rowdyishadj.
/ˈraʊdɪɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈraʊdiɪʃ/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
Disposed to rowdiness; rather noisy and disorderly. Cf. rowdy adj.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [adjective] > somewhat
rowdyish1837
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [adjective] > rowdy noise
riotous?1456
obstreperousc1600
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rowing1812
rowdyish1837
rowdy-dowy1852
rorty1899
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough > rough or boisterous > somewhat
rowdyish1837
1837 Amer. Monthly Mag. Jan. 14 To the Sulphur Springs? Not the season. To Saratoga? Decidedly too rowdyish.
1850 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 16 May in Amer. Notebks. (1972) viii. 509 Changed into a brandy-burnt and rowdyish sort of personage.
1874 W. R. Greg Rocks Ahead 201 The administration has fallen into the hands of men too rowdyish, too infamous..to be endured.
1912 M. Antin At School in Promised Land x. 76 All the children of the neighborhood, except the most rowdyish, flocked to Morgan Chapel at least once a week.
1957 Midwest Folklore 7 14 Some of the rowdyish traits found in culture heroes.
2002 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 14 July d2 Rowdy-ish teens or twenty-somethings,..drinking, smoking joints and blasting each other with super soakers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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