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nounrowdie (plural rowdies)
plural rowdies
- archaicArchaic spelling of rowdy.
But if no constable was to be had, or, worse still, if the constable was himself a rowdie, commend us to a Nehemiah who, to build the wall of Jerusalem in troublous times, can handle the sword as alertly as the trowel.
1860, Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod, Hartley Aspden, Good Words and Sunday Magazine, volume 1, page 126
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APA
rowdie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rowdie
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“rowdie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rowdie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rowdie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rowdie.
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