rowdie

English

Noun

rowdie (plural rowdies)

  1. Archaic spelling of rowdy.
    • 1860, Norman Macleod, ‎Donald Macleod, ‎Hartley Aspden, Good Words and Sunday Magazine (volume 1, page 126)
      But if no constable was to be had, or, worse still, if the constable was himself a rowdie, commend us to a Nehemiah who, to build the wall of Jerusalem in troublous times, can handle the sword as alertly as the trowel.

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