Ruffian

Noun

 * 1) A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.

Synonyms

 * rogue
 * scamp

Adjectives for Ruffian
burly; black-looking; solitary; sordid; staring; shy; young; true; malignant-looking; miserable; swaggering; madcap; cowardly; unprincipled.

Thesaurus
Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, bad boy, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, booger, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bravo, brawler, bucko, buffoon, bugger, bully, bullyboy, cad, churl, clown, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cutthroat, cutup, desperado, devil, disputant, duelist, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, epicier, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, funmaker, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, groundling, gunman, guttersnipe, hatchet man, hell-raiser, hellcat, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, imp, joker, jokester, jouster, killer, knave, knight, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, looby, lout, low fellow, mad dog, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, mucker, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker, prankster, puck, punk, quarreler, rapscallion, rascal, ribald, rioter, rival, rogue, rough, roughneck, rowdy, sabreur, scamp, scapegrace, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, wag, wrangler, yahoo, yokel

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 痞子
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: räyhääjä, ,
 * French:, ,


 * Italian:
 * Russian:, хулиган, буян
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skurk, rackare, slyngel, lymmel

Anagrams

 * funfair

Noun

 * 1) * 1943, Jean Ray, Malpertuis, 1978 ed., p. 8
 * Il n'y a que la fortune pour faire d'un ruffian un honnête homme, soumis aux lois humaines.
 * Il n'y a que la fortune pour faire d'un ruffian un honnête homme, soumis aux lois humaines.