Noun

(roadmen)

A man who builds or repairs roads.

*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 28, author=Edward Rothstein, title=Novel to Screen to Stage: Evolving, Step by Step, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Any reader turning to the original novel would hardly recognize it in the shadow of Hitchcock’s film, so preoccupied is it with describing the glens and heathery mountains of the Scottish highlands, inhabited with an unlikely cavalcade of native eccentrics: an innkeeper with literary aspirations, a Liberal candidate with pacifist sympathies, a lower-class roadman laid up by drink, a bald archaeologist who isn’t quite what he seems. }}

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland, slang, pejorative, offensive) A person, usually a youth, of low social standing and education, a violent disposition and with a particular style of dress (typically sportswear or Burberry), speech and behaviour.

* 2007 (Scotland), RecordView'' in ''Daily Record, 14 Feb 07 , Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, p. 8,

The mindless behaviour of drunken neds and nuisance neighbours brings misery to tens of thousands of honest folk.