rowdy• A group of three men including, he said, the appellant, were being rowdy.• The meeting was a somewhat rowdyaffair.• When they were rowdy and rude, I kept whole classes for detention.• They were thrown out of the bar for rowdybehaviour.• No kin to speak of, except for that rowdybunch in Ireland, of course.• Our fans may be a little rowdy, but they don't throw things.• People living near the footballstadiumcomplain about litter and rowdy fans.• a rowdyfraternityparty• But like a lot of his rowdy friends, he is settling down.• The women at the sidelines of the rugbymatch had become very rowdy indeed.• There had been eight of them, a jolly, rowdy party in the respectable Southsea restaurant.• Like teenagers the world over, they were energetic, challenging, rowdy, sometimeslazy and always questioning.• He seemed to think that the others were too rowdy, too greedy.
rowdy2 noun (plural rowdies) [countableC usually plural]
old-fashionedLOUD/NOISY someone who behaves in a rough noisy way 吵闹的人,粗野的人
Originrowdy1
(1800-1900) Perhaps from row“unpleasant noise”((18-21 centuries))