A quarrelsome person; one given to brawling and riot; a rowdy. Obsolete.

A brawler, a bravo, a bully.

A person who raises an outcry; a person who complains or protests.

? a roistering disreputable fellow.

One who makes or commits a breach.

Originally and chiefly U.S. A backwoodsman of a rough and lawless type; (hence) a rough, disorderly person; one disposed to quarrelling…

A rough or rowdy person; a troublemaker; a bully.

A person with rough manners; an uncultivated or uneducated person; (also) a quarrelsome troublemaker, a rowdy. Also figurative.

A person (typically a youth or a man) who is disreputable, disorderly, violent, or rowdy.

a lock of hair made smooth by the application of soap; hence, one who wears such, a low fellow, a rough or rowdy.

Originally: a Dublin street urchin. Now usually: a rough, aggressive young man; a lout, a hooligan. Also as a term of abuse.