Ruffian vs Ruffianlike - What's the difference?
ruffian | ruffianlike |
A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A pimp; a pander.
(obsolete) A lover; a paramour.
* Bishop Reynolds
As adjectives the difference between ruffian and ruffianlike
is that ruffian is brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous while ruffianlike is like a ruffian.As a noun ruffian
is a scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.As a verb ruffian
is to play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.ruffian
English
Noun
(en noun)- Wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian ?
- He [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, revelling with her ruffians .