ruffian – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
ruffian
adj.
brutal, lawless, aggressive, violent, tough
n.
bully, thug, hooligan, brute, tough and violent person
Ruffian
A ruffian is a , or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
ruffian
Noun
1. a cruel and brutal fellow
(synonym) bully, tough, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo
(hypernym) attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
(hyponym) bullyboy
Ruffian
(v. i.)
To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
(n.)
A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
(n.)
A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
(a.)
brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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ruffian
Synonyms and related words:
Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, bad boy, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, booger, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bravo, brawler, bucko, buffoon, bugger, bully, bullyboy, cad, churl, clown, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cutthroat, cutup, desperado, devil, disputant, duelist, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, epicier, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, funmaker, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, groundling, gunman, guttersnipe, hatchet man, hell-raiser, hellcat, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, imp, joker, jokester, jouster, killer, knave, knight, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, looby, lout, low fellow, mad dog, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, mucker, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker, prankster, puck, punk, quarreler, rapscallion, rascal, ribald, rioter, rival, rogue, rough, roughneck, rowdy, sabreur, scamp, scapegrace, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, wag, wrangler, yahoo, yokel
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.