About The Word Larrikin
Learn about the word Larrikin to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Larrikin definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Larrikin
| Larrikin Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Larrikin?Synonyms | Synonyms for Larrikin: Related Terms | Find terms related to Larrikin: See Also | Larrikin In Webster's Dictionary \Lar"ri*kin\, n. [Cf. E. dial. larrikin a mischievous
or frolicsome youth, larrick lively, careless, larack to
trolic, to romp.]
A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow;
-- variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street
Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. [Australia & Eng.] --
a. Rowdy; rough; disorderly. [Australia & Eng.]
Mobs of unruly larrikins. --Sydney Daily
Telegraph.
Note: Larrikin is often popularly explained by the following
anecdote (which is without foundation): An Irish
policeman at Melbourne, on bringing a notorious rough
into court, was asked by the magistrate what the
prisoner had been doing, and replied, ``He was
a-larrikin' [i. e., a-larking] about the streets.''
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Somatic delusion ‐ a delusion concerning the body image or parts…
- Python variegatus ‐ Australian python with a variegated pattern…
- Monogenic disorder ‐ an inherited disease controlled by a single…
- Dehorn ‐ take the horns off animals [v] prevent the growth of horns; of…
- Cloudburst ‐ a…
- John davys ‐ English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for…
- Ballistic ‐ relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving…
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca ‐ large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of…
- Swig ‐ a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp"…
- Personalty ‐ movable property (as distinguished from…