rowdy (n.)
- arriviste
- bad
- battler
- belligerent
- blade
- blaring
- booger
- boor
- bounder
- bourgeois
- bravo
- brawler
- buffoon
- bugger
- bully
- bullyboy
- cad
- churl
- clown
- combatant
- competitor
- contender
- contestant
- cutthroat
- desperado
- devil
- disorderly
- disputant
- duelist
- elf
- enforcer
- fencer
- fighter
- gamecock
- gladiator
- goon
- gorilla
- groundling
- gunman
- guttersnipe
- harum-scarum
- hellcat
- hood
- hoodlum
- hooligan
- imp
- joker
- jokester
- killer
- knave
- knight
- knockabout
- loud
- lout
- militant
- minx
- mischief
- mischief-maker
- parvenu
- peasant
- pixie
- plug-ugly
- prankster
- puck
- punk
- quarreler
- rapscallion
- rascal
- ribald
- rioter
- rival
- rogue
- rough
- rough-and-tumble
- roughneck
- ruffian
- scamp
- scapegrace
- scrapper
- skinhead
- squabbler
- strong-armer
- struggler
- swashbuckler
- sword
- swordsman
- termagant
- thug
- tilter
- tough
- upstart
- vulgarian
- wag
- wild
- wrangler
- yahoo
- yokel
rowdy (adj.)
- bad
- belligerent
- blaring
- blatant
- blustering
- boisterous
- boorish
- bourgeois
- brassy
- brazen
- bully
- churlish
- clamant
- clamorous
- clanging
- clangorous
- clattery
- cloddish
- clownish
- combatant
- cutthroat
- devil
- disorderly
- disruptive
- elf
- harum-scarum
- imp
- improper
- knock-down-and-drag-out
- knockabout
- loud
- loutish
- lubberly
- lumpish
- militant
- naughty
- noisy
- obstreperous
- off-base
- parvenu
- punk
- rackety
- raffish
- rambunctious
- rampageous
- raucous
- ribald
- rip-roaring
- rollicking
- rough
- rough-and-tumble
- ruffianly
- rumbustious
- tough
- tumultuous
- turbulent
- unruly
- uproarious
- upstart
- vociferous
- wild
- yokelish
