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单词 rowdy
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Definition of rowdy in English:

rowdy

adjectiverowdiest, rowdier ˈraʊdiˈraʊdi
  • Noisy and disorderly.

    it was a rowdy but good-natured crowd
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Police are also cracking down on rowdy teenagers who have been causing a disturbance at stations in the area.
    • Taxi drivers could reduce the chance of being assaulted by installing a protective shield to separate them from rowdy passengers.
    • Be especially aware of late night, rowdy discussions around the campfire, or yelling and shouting.
    • Police now have more powers than ever to crack down on boozy rowdy behaviour.
    • Problems started a year ago with youngsters being rowdy and lighting fires, he said.
    • Crowds of rowdy youngsters streaming into Walton from outlying towns and villages are causing a problem.
    • Most of the kids at the school were rowdy and rambunctious, but they knew not to mess with the principal.
    • When a loud, rowdy group of kids came in, I just kept my head down and ignored them.
    • Certainly from the reports so far, it seems as though guards based in the city centre had not been given the training to deal with a rowdy crowd.
    • In 1992, he was arrested after rowdy scenes outside a Nottingham nightclub, but released without charge.
    • I could tell she was making a valiant attempt to join in the rambunctious merrymaking with the rowdy crowd.
    • Since they began their direct action the arson attacks, break-ins and rowdy behaviour of recent weeks has all but stopped.
    • In Billericay, police were called to move on a crowd of more than 50 rowdy supporters after they spilled on to the High Street, but no arrests were made.
    • Police are preparing to launch a crackdown on rowdy youths in Stratton, Swindon.
    • Housing chiefs say such behaviour will not be tolerated, and have warned rowdy tenants that they face eviction.
    • Every so often the Royal Marines let off smoke grenades to disperse the increasingly rowdy crowd.
    • One by one, loud, rowdy girls begin to file in from the halls.
    • The famous sailor dance mimicked the movement of drunk, rowdy crewmen.
    • Over the years, December 31 has become synonymous with drunken and rowdy behaviour in public.
    • Residents using the shops have complained about the group's rowdy behaviour and businesses say they are losing customers.
    Synonyms
    unruly, disorderly, badly behaved, obstreperous, riotous, unrestrained, undisciplined, ill-disciplined, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, uncontrolled, disruptive, out of hand, out of control, rough, wild, turbulent, lawless
    boisterous, irrepressible, uproarious, rollicking, roisterous, rackety, noisy, loud, clamorous
    British informal rumbustious
    North American informal rambunctious
    archaic rampageous
nounPlural rowdies ˈraʊdiˈraʊdi
  • A noisy and disorderly person.

    we are accused of being rowdies in the pub
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The two weeks we were there were entirely free of drunks or rowdies.
    • Following several incidents in previous years when drunken rowdies went on the rampage in York, coaches were permanently banned from the city centre and pubs had to close before the last race.
    • In their eagerness to surpass their rivals, friendly competition between fire companies deteriorated into daily skirmishes and riots between gangs of dandies and rowdies.
    • The centre is not so awfully bad, if you ignore the drunks and rowdies that is.
    • Sleep-starved residents today called for a new crackdown on rowdies in Clacton town centre who are making their lives a misery.
    • Even after she asked him to stay close when approached by two rowdies, he told her that they were harmless and left her to it - hoping against hope he had made the right decision.
    • Anarchist, of course, has become a media code word for punk-and-hippie anti-capitalist rowdies.
    • In 1969 the canyon shut down, overrun by motorcyclists, students, and assorted rowdies.
    • But they weren't drinking, they weren't rowdies, they were marvelous ladies and gentlemen that were a credit to their country and to their faith and to their parents.
    • All rowdies go there, and the watchman had so many skirmishes with them.
    • There are several playgrounds around Bradford, built under similar arrangements, which have been removed at the request of residents after becoming the gathering place for young rowdies.
    • Now the police sergeant, who has moved back to the town after a 17-year stint elsewhere in the county, wants to clamp down on the late night rowdies.
    • The hero joins the band of underworld dons and becomes a rowdy.
    • The rowdies were given a free hand to subvert justice, equality, liberty and fraternity.
    • On the other side they were considered as wild red necks, rowdies and drunks.
    • Youngsters are not just a bunch of movie-type heroes or roadside rowdies who would bring disgrace to society with their actions.
    • The courts will also have the power to order the pubs and clubs to install CCTV to keep an eye on rowdies.
    • Again, in an exercise hall where supervision was inadequate, the senior pupils would wantonly throw down the juniors or pick quarrels, so that jujitsu was despised as something that made rowdies of young men.
    • His enervated foster parents solved the problem by giving the little rowdy into the custody of a cloister.
    • His leg had been broken during a brawl at the pub; he had been forced to evict a group of rowdies and they decided that he should be left with this memento of their visit.
    Synonyms
    ruffian, troublemaker, lout, thug, hooligan, bully boy, hoodlum, brawler
    British tearaway
    Scottish &amp Northern English keelie, ned
    Australian larrikin
    informal tough, bruiser, yahoo
    British informal rough, yob, yobbo, bovver boy, lager lout, chav, hoodie
    Australian/New Zealand informal roughie, lout

Derivatives

  • rowdily

  • adverb
    • Even though they weren't exactly my cup of tea, the crowd took them in with open arms, and bounced rowdily to the beats.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Everyone was pretty drunk, running around the town centre and yelling rowdily.
      • As an ex-bouncer, let me point out from experience that getting through a crowd like that is virtually impossible, especially when it's a drunk and rowdily cheerful crowd.
      • It isn't clear whether he was interceding in a fight or trying to quiet down someone who was behaving rowdily.
      • Malostranske Pivnice, our first experience of a genuine Czech pub, is filled with locals rowdily downing drink after drink.
  • rowdiness

  • noun ˈraʊdɪnəs
    • Under new laws, pubs will be able to apply to stay open longer which it is hoped will curb some of the excessive drinking and rowdiness under the current system.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Drink and drugs and rowdiness are destroying the place.
      • Various initiatives aimed at reducing city-centre crime and rowdiness, including the latest clamp-down on binge drinkers over the Christmas period, appear to be paying off.
      • The accident emergency department was expecting a busy night with incidents that staff said were usually caused by rowdiness, alcohol and drugs.
      • Both towns have problems with alcohol-related rowdiness.
  • rowdyism

  • noun ˈraʊdɪɪz(ə)mˈraʊdiˌɪzəm
    • Late night rowdyism in the town could decrease now that local authorities have new powers to curb anti-social behaviour.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There were people visibly drunk on the streets this weekend and there is a lot of rowdyism in the town in general.
      • Fighting, rowdyism and general mayhem erupted on the quiet main street of Abbeyleix on Sunday last.
      • At ten o'clock, despite the fact that the police were present to control any undue rowdyism, the gates were closed.
      • A clampdown on late night rowdyism and vandalism has been promised this week by the authorities in Laois.

Origin

Early 19th century (originally US in the sense 'lawless backwoodsman'): of unknown origin.

Rhymes

cloudy, dowdy, Gaudí, howdy, Saudi
 
 

Definition of rowdy in US English:

rowdy

adjectiveˈraʊdiˈroudē
  • Noisy and disorderly.

    it was a rowdy but good-natured crowd
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Police are also cracking down on rowdy teenagers who have been causing a disturbance at stations in the area.
    • Most of the kids at the school were rowdy and rambunctious, but they knew not to mess with the principal.
    • I could tell she was making a valiant attempt to join in the rambunctious merrymaking with the rowdy crowd.
    • Certainly from the reports so far, it seems as though guards based in the city centre had not been given the training to deal with a rowdy crowd.
    • Since they began their direct action the arson attacks, break-ins and rowdy behaviour of recent weeks has all but stopped.
    • Be especially aware of late night, rowdy discussions around the campfire, or yelling and shouting.
    • Crowds of rowdy youngsters streaming into Walton from outlying towns and villages are causing a problem.
    • In 1992, he was arrested after rowdy scenes outside a Nottingham nightclub, but released without charge.
    • Over the years, December 31 has become synonymous with drunken and rowdy behaviour in public.
    • When a loud, rowdy group of kids came in, I just kept my head down and ignored them.
    • Police are preparing to launch a crackdown on rowdy youths in Stratton, Swindon.
    • Every so often the Royal Marines let off smoke grenades to disperse the increasingly rowdy crowd.
    • One by one, loud, rowdy girls begin to file in from the halls.
    • Taxi drivers could reduce the chance of being assaulted by installing a protective shield to separate them from rowdy passengers.
    • Police now have more powers than ever to crack down on boozy rowdy behaviour.
    • The famous sailor dance mimicked the movement of drunk, rowdy crewmen.
    • Problems started a year ago with youngsters being rowdy and lighting fires, he said.
    • In Billericay, police were called to move on a crowd of more than 50 rowdy supporters after they spilled on to the High Street, but no arrests were made.
    • Residents using the shops have complained about the group's rowdy behaviour and businesses say they are losing customers.
    • Housing chiefs say such behaviour will not be tolerated, and have warned rowdy tenants that they face eviction.
    Synonyms
    unruly, disorderly, badly behaved, obstreperous, riotous, unrestrained, undisciplined, ill-disciplined, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, uncontrolled, disruptive, out of hand, out of control, rough, wild, turbulent, lawless
nounˈraʊdiˈroudē
  • A noisy and disorderly person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The two weeks we were there were entirely free of drunks or rowdies.
    • The hero joins the band of underworld dons and becomes a rowdy.
    • There are several playgrounds around Bradford, built under similar arrangements, which have been removed at the request of residents after becoming the gathering place for young rowdies.
    • Now the police sergeant, who has moved back to the town after a 17-year stint elsewhere in the county, wants to clamp down on the late night rowdies.
    • Anarchist, of course, has become a media code word for punk-and-hippie anti-capitalist rowdies.
    • Sleep-starved residents today called for a new crackdown on rowdies in Clacton town centre who are making their lives a misery.
    • In 1969 the canyon shut down, overrun by motorcyclists, students, and assorted rowdies.
    • His enervated foster parents solved the problem by giving the little rowdy into the custody of a cloister.
    • Youngsters are not just a bunch of movie-type heroes or roadside rowdies who would bring disgrace to society with their actions.
    • Following several incidents in previous years when drunken rowdies went on the rampage in York, coaches were permanently banned from the city centre and pubs had to close before the last race.
    • Again, in an exercise hall where supervision was inadequate, the senior pupils would wantonly throw down the juniors or pick quarrels, so that jujitsu was despised as something that made rowdies of young men.
    • The courts will also have the power to order the pubs and clubs to install CCTV to keep an eye on rowdies.
    • In their eagerness to surpass their rivals, friendly competition between fire companies deteriorated into daily skirmishes and riots between gangs of dandies and rowdies.
    • The rowdies were given a free hand to subvert justice, equality, liberty and fraternity.
    • But they weren't drinking, they weren't rowdies, they were marvelous ladies and gentlemen that were a credit to their country and to their faith and to their parents.
    • On the other side they were considered as wild red necks, rowdies and drunks.
    • All rowdies go there, and the watchman had so many skirmishes with them.
    • His leg had been broken during a brawl at the pub; he had been forced to evict a group of rowdies and they decided that he should be left with this memento of their visit.
    • Even after she asked him to stay close when approached by two rowdies, he told her that they were harmless and left her to it - hoping against hope he had made the right decision.
    • The centre is not so awfully bad, if you ignore the drunks and rowdies that is.
    Synonyms
    ruffian, troublemaker, lout, thug, hooligan, bully boy, hoodlum, brawler

Origin

Early 19th century (originally US in the sense ‘lawless backwoodsman’): of unknown origin.

 
 
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