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Word Meanings - ROWDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.

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  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
    companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • FELLOWLIKE
    Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
  • FELLOWLY
    Fellowlike. Shak.
  • NOISY
    1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.
  • QUARRELSOME
    Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn. -- Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness,
  • FELLOW
    companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
  • FELLOW-CREATURE
    One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.
  • RUFFIANLY
    Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.
  • FELLOWFEEL
    To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers.
  • FELLOWLESS
    Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.
  • BEDFELLOW
    One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
  • UNFELLOWED
    Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
  • DISFELLOWSHIP
    To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
  • ODD FELLOW
    A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
  • PEWFELLOW
    1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
  • GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
    Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
  • PLAYFELLOW
    A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
  • COACHFELLOW
    One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.
  • WORKFELLOW
    One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
  • YOKEFELLOW
    An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage. Phil. iv. 3. The two languages became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner. Earle. Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the
  • VOW-FELLOW
    One bound by the same vow as another. Shak.

 

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