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Ruffian meaning
A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person. | A pimp; a pander. | A lover; a paramour.
Example sentences (8)
Brandon Walters stars in the “Playboy” role of Christopher Mahon, handsome and enigmatic, a curiously delicate ruffian in exile from his native village.
This is nothing more than a ruffian.
Along with shinobi, some examples include monomi ("one who sees"), nokizaru (" macaque on the roof"), rappa ("ruffian"), kusa ("grass") and Iga-mono ("one from Iga").
A plagiarised version of this book appeared in the United States c. 1852–53 as Sweeney Todd: or the Ruffian Barber.
Block, p. 175 Louise is seduced by the ruffian boy during her Act 2 ballet, set around the ruins of a carousel.
Dickson (1982), p. 230. The term eventually came to describe "a young male hustler, a gangster, a hoodlum, or a ruffian".
He had completed Entertaining Mr Sloane by the time Ruffian was broadcast.
In like vein, the term yahoo is often encountered as a synonym for ruffian or thug.