voyoun.
A street urchin; a lout or hooligan.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets
scamperer1712
sweater1712
corner-boy1855
plug-ugly1856
corner-cove1862
keelie1863
tough1866
larrikin1868
corner-man1885
voyoua1896
tsotsi1949
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child
blackguard1699
street girl1764
street boy1796
mudlark1814
street urchin1827
gamin1832
street child1839
Arab1847
street Arab1853
muckworm1859
scuttler1867
gutter-snipec1869
gutter-child1870
gavroche1876
gutter-snippet1891
voyoua1896
street kid1910
dead-end kid1928
gurrier1936
a1896 G. Du Maurier Martian (1897) 60 ‘La flotte de Passy’, as we called the Passy voyous.
1901 Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 195 But indeed the Hooligan, under the name of rough,..voyou..has been with us long, and not in this country alone.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 May 308/3 His curious friendship with a voyou.
1980 R. Grayson Monterant Affair vi. 50 She had fallen in love with one of the ‘voyous’ of Paris, a brash scoundrel living on his wits.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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