rowdie

English

Noun

rowdie (plural rowdies)

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.

Anagrams

weirdo, wordie

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