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n. A tough or rowdy person.

n. A thug or gangster.

n. A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.

v. To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

n. A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.

n. A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.

n. A tough, lawless or bullying person.

adj. Brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous.

verb-intransitive. To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

n. . A pimp; a pander; a paramour.

n. A boisterous, brutal fellow; a fellow ready for any desperate crime; a robber; a cutthroat; a murderer.

n. . The devil.

Licentious; lascivious: wanton.

Lawless and cruel; brutal: murderous; inhuman: villainous.

Violent; tumultuous; stormy.

To play the ruffian; rage; raise tumult.

n. a cruel and brutal fellow

"It does not appear, however, that the term ruffian is altogether misplaced."

aggressor    attacker    assailant    assaulter   

bullyboy    muscle    tough guy    skinhead    plug-ugly    muscleman   

pimp    pander    cutthroat    brutal    cruel    murderous    rage    rowdy    villainy    scamp   

scoundrel    villain    robber    thief    brute    liar    assassin    wretch    tyrant    bandit