A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person. / (obsolete) A pimp; a pander. / (obsolete) A lover; a paramour.

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

Brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous.

plural of ruffian

The behaviour of a ruffian.

plural of ruffianism

(obsolete) Like a ruffian.

simple past tense and past participle of ruffian

present participle of ruffian

simple past tense and past participle of ruffianize