ruffian

Meanings

Plural: ruffians

Noun

• a cruel and brutal fellow
• A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.
• A pimp; a pander.
• A lover; a paramour.

Verb

• To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

Adj

• Brutal, cruel, ruffianlikes.

Synonyms

abbot, agitator, bad boy, bad news, bear, bhoy, blackguard, bludger, booger, boot boy, bovver boy, brat, brawler, breedbate, buffoon, bugger, bully, charva, cock-bawd, cutup, dalaal, devil, elf, enfant terrible, firebrand, fishmonger, flashman, fleshmonger, gadfly, hell-raiser, hood, hoodlum, hool, hoolie, hooligan, hoon, hothead, hustler, imp, inciter, initiator, instigator, jackanapes, joker, jokester, kindle-coal, kindle-fire, knave, lout, mack, mack daddy, mackerel, makebate, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, muttonmonger, ne'er-do-well, nookie-bookie, pandar, pimp, pixie, pot stirrer, practical joker, prankster, puck, pussymonger, rabble rouser, rakeshame, rantipole, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, roly-poly, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, shit disturber, shit-stirrer, shitmonger, souteneur, sweetman, tearaway, thug, titivil, tough, troublemaker, undesirable, vandal, wag, wagpastie, whoreman, whoremaster, whoremonger, wrangler, yob, yobbo, yobo

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