rowdy

Etymology

Possibly from row (“noisy argument”).

adj

1. Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.

noun

1. A boisterous person; a brawler.
   Carpenter recruited his gang at the saloon, rowdies all. They slept the day, drank well into the evening, and then set off for their pastime. 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 164
2. (Victorian slang) money; ready money.
   The blessing of the priest converts flesh into fish; the skil of the resataurateur changes pet pussies into favourite dishes; the learning of the consmetic-chemist metamorphoses age into youth; the wisdom of Solomen Isaacs transmogrifies old garments into now; the tact of the lawyer makes the worse appear the better cause; and the magic spell of the ready—otherwise know as money, cash, tin, stuff, rhino, root-of-all-evil, blunt, wherewithal, 'rowdy, funds, stumpy, pecuniary, dibs, hard, browns, heavy, mopusses, slugs, shiners, lucre, or 'the filthy,' dust, gelt, chips, lumps, chinkers, mint-drops, pewter, brass, horsenails, rocks, brads, spondulix, needful, dough, spoons, buttons, dimes, or the infallible— will convert every article and item in that old sole-leather into "duty free." 1855, Charles Godfrey Leland, chapter 22, in Meister Karl's Sketch-Book, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, page 166