ruffian

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.