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rowdey

rowdey is the obsolete form of rowdy.

Meaning of rowdy

Noun

rowdy (countable and uncountable, plural rowdies)

  1. (countable) A boisterous person; a brawler.
    • Carpenter recruited his gang at the saloon, rowdies all. They slept the day, drank well into the evening, and then set off for their pastime.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 164
  2. (obsolete, slang, uncountable) money; ready money.
    • I don’t know whether I quite approve of your throwing over Mr. P. for Mr. F., and don’t think Foker’s such a pretty name, and from your account of him he seems a muff, and not a beauty. But he has got the rowdy, which is the thing.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 76, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

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Forms of rowdey

pluralrowdeys

Questions about rowdey

What is rowdey the obsolete form of?
Rowdey is the obsolete form of rowdy.

Words near rowdey in the dictionary

  1. Rowde
  2. rowdedow
  3. rowdedows
  4. Rowden
  5. Rowdens
  6. rowdey
  7. rowdie
  8. rowdier
  9. rowdies
  10. rowdiest
  11. rowdily

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