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rowdyism

rowdyism noun: the state of being rowdy.

Noun

rowdyism (countable and uncountable, plural rowdyisms)

  1. The state of being rowdy.
    • Ayah stops to one side and I dive into the tangle of limbs yelling for all I’m worth, contributing my mite of rowdyism to the general row.1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 49

rowdyism meaning in Tamil and Kannada

rowdyism in Tamil

போக்கிரித்தனம்

rowdyism in Kannada

ಪುಂಡುತನ, ಪುಂಡತನ, ಪುಂಡಾಟಿಕೆ

Forms of rowdyism

pluralrowdyisms

Origin of rowdyism

From rowdy + -ism.

Questions about rowdyism

What does rowdyism mean?
Rowdyism means the state of being rowdy.
What is rowdyism in Tamil?
Rowdyism in Tamil is போக்கிரித்தனம். See Rowdyism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rowdyism?
Rowdyism is a noun.
What is the plural of rowdyism?
The plural of rowdyism is rowdyisms.

Words near rowdyism in the dictionary

  1. rowdydowdy
  2. rowdydows
  3. rowdyish
  4. rowdyishly
  5. rowdyishness
  6. rowdyism
  7. rowdyisms
  8. Rowe
  9. rowed
  10. rowed back
  11. rowed in the same boat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rowdyism (page history and authors); rowdyism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rowdyism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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