Etymology

rudeboy

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Today it means: A male juvenile delinquent, originally in Jamaica in the 1960s. Full definition →

Jamaican Creole rude bwoy
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  1. Jamaican Creole · borrowed fromrude bwoy
  2. English todayrudeboy

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole rude bwoy, equivalent to rude + boy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.