ruffian (n.)
- arriviste
- battler
- belligerent
- blade
- booger
- boor
- bounder
- bourgeois
- bravo
- brawler
- buffoon
- bugger
- bully
- bullyboy
- cad
- churl
- clown
- combatant
- competitor
- contender
- contestant
- cutthroat
- desperado
- devil
- disputant
- duelist
- elf
- enforcer
- fencer
- fighter
- gamecock
- gladiator
- goon
- gorilla
- groundling
- gunman
- guttersnipe
- hellcat
- hood
- hoodlum
- hooligan
- imp
- joker
- jokester
- killer
- knave
- knight
- lout
- militant
- minx
- mischief
- mischief-maker
- parvenu
- peasant
- pixie
- plug-ugly
- prankster
- puck
- punk
- quarreler
- rapscallion
- rascal
- ribald
- rioter
- rival
- rogue
- rough
- roughneck
- rowdy
- scamp
- scapegrace
- scrapper
- squabbler
- strong-armer
- struggler
- swashbuckler
- sword
- swordsman
- thug
- tilter
- tough
- upstart
- vulgarian
- wag
- wrangler
- yahoo
- yokel
That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years.
