RUFFIAN
\ɹˈʌfi͡ən], \ɹˈʌfiən], \ɹ_ˈʌ_f_iə_n]\
Definitions of RUFFIAN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
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To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
By Oddity Software
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brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
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To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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A brutal, boisterous fellow: a robber: a murderer.
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Brutal: boisterous.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Brutal; savagely boisterous.
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A boisterous brutal fellow; a fellow ready for any desperate crime; a robber; a murderer.
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To play the ruffian; to rage.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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