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What (who) is ruffian - definition
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Ruffians; Ruffian (disambiguation)
ruffian
(ruffians)
A ruffian is a man who behaves violently and is involved in crime. (OLD-FASHIONED)
...gangs of ruffians who lurk about intent on troublemaking.
N-COUNT
ruffian
¦ noun a violent or lawless person.
Derivatives
ruffianism noun
ruffianly adjective
Origin
C15: from OFr. ruffian, from Ital. ruffiano, perh. from dialect rofia 'scab, scurf', of Gmc origin.
Ruffian
·noun A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
II. Ruffian ·adj brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
IV. Ruffian ·noun A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
Wikipedia
Ruffian
A ruffian is a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
Ruffian may refer to:
- Ruffian (horse) (1972–1975), a famous thoroughbred racehorse
- Ruffian (film), a 2007 television movie about the racehorse
- Ruffian Games, a Scottish games developer
- Ruffian, a chess engine
- Ruffian 23, Irish sailboat designed by Billy Brown
- Border Ruffians, pro-Slavery activists from Missouri in the American Civil War
- The Ruffian on the Stair, a 1964 British play
- HMS Bellerophon (1786), also known as Billy Ruffian
- The Ruffians, the major antagonists of the Nintendo game Sin and Punishment
- British codename of the German X-Geraet, radar system
- The Ruffian, a 1983 French-Canadian criminal adventure film
Examples of use of ruffian
1. "Omkara is literally a ‘half–caste‘ ruffian who has become a leader.
2. Others questioned how a player such as Materrazzi–widely known as a ruffian on the field–could dare interfere with the workings of a genius.
3. He was well received by his Tory colleagues, partly because of his combination of military, farming and legal backgrounds, partly because he was seen as a "jovial ruffian" in the smoking room.
4. A ruffian jumped on the bus, knocked over an old lady, trampled on daughter‘s toes and then stuffed his bag, with his take–away curry, on top of said plants.
5. The British Museum, for example, is still smarting from the case of the Portland vase, a violet–blue Roman glass urn found in the tomb of Emperor Alexander Severus, deliberately vandalised and shattered to pieces by a ruffian in 1845, but so impeccably restored that it is impossible to tell.