Rowdy

Definitions

1. A boisterous person; a brawler.
   countable
2. money; ready money.
   obsolete, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“"Where's your money?" Jack exclaimed, hoarsely, in a well-feigned voice. "Ah! where's the rowdy?" iterated Clayton, in a tone it was impossible to conceal. "I have⟳ no money — none — save⟳ a few guineas; there — there — in my pocket […]”

“The blessing of the priest converts flesh into fish⟳; the skil of the resataurateur changes pet pussies into favourite dishes; the learning of the consmetic-chemist metamorphoses age into youth; the wisdom of Solomen Isaacs transmogrifies old garments into now; the tact of the lawyer makes the worse appear⟳ the better cause; and the magic spell⟳ of the ready—otherwise know⟳ as money, cash, tin, stuff, rhino, root-of-all-evil, blunt, wherewithal, 'rowdy, funds, stumpy, pecuniary, dibs, hard, browns, heavy, mopusses, slugs, shiners, lucre, or 'the filthy,' dust, gelt, chips, lumps, chinkers, mint-drops, pewter, brass, horsenails, rocks, brads, spondulix, needful, dough, spoons, buttons, dimes, or the infallible— will convert every article and item in that old sole-leather into "duty free."”

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