noun. A tough or rowdy person.

noun. A thug or gangster.

To play the ruffian; rage; raise tumult.

noun. . A pimp; a pander; a paramour.

noun. A boisterous, brutal fellow; a fellow ready for any desperate crime; a robber; a cutthroat; a murderer.

noun. . The devil.

Licentious; lascivious: wanton.

Lawless and cruel; brutal: murderous; inhuman: villainous.

Violent; tumultuous; stormy.

adjective. Brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous.

noun. A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.

noun. A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.

noun. A tough, lawless or bullying person.

intransitive verb. To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

noun. A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.

verb. To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

noun. a cruel and brutal fellow

"It does not appear, however, that the term ruffian is altogether misplaced."

aggressor  assailant  assaulter  attacker  

bullyboy  muscle  muscleman  plug-ugly  skinhead  

adventurer  assassin  bandit  barbarian  beggar  

Babbitt  Philistine  arriviste  bad boy  battler