LARRIKIN

Date "LARRIKIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

Etymology: Larrikin \Lar"ri*kin\, noun. [Compare to English dial. larrikin mischievous or frolicsome youth, larrick lively, careless, larack to trolic, to romp.]. (Websters 1913)

Blusterer

Noun: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart; (boaster); bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury; (violent person); rowdy; slang-whanger, tough.

Evil doer

Savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado; Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, pug-ugly, Red Skin, tough; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief.

Books

• 'Ave a go, yer mug! : Australian cricket crowds from larrikin to ocker (reference)

• Larrikin crook; the rise and fall of Squizzy Taylor (reference)

• Larrikin days : 100 years of growing up in an Australian suburb (reference)

• The Larrikin streak : Australian writers look at the legend (reference)

• The last showman : Larry Dulhunty's larrikin life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Containing "LARRIKIN": boyo-larrikin-rugby-skiving.

Albanian

rrugaç (Barker, guttersnipe, hoodlum, hooligan, rough, thug, vagrant, whelp, yob, yobbo). (various references)

Arabic 

‏المتسكع المشاكس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

грубиян (abuser, bohunk, boor, bulldozer, chuff, churl, clown, hottentot, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, savage, yap), гамен (guttersnipe, ragamuffin). (various references)

Czech

sprostý (crude, dirty, dunghill, foul, foul-mouthed, gross, indecent, mean, nasty, obscene, plebeian, poor, rowdy, scurrilous, squalid, vulgar). (various references)

French

délinquant. (various references)

Hungarian

vagány (rough, roughneck, tough, yob, yobbo). (various references)

Pig Latin

arrikinlay

Portuguese

rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), primitivo (barbaric, early, first, forehand, former, low-lived, origin, primaeval, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, savage, whilom, wilding), inculto (barbaric, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, devastated, fallow, low-brow, low-lived, rough, rustic, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unenlightened, unformed, uninformed, unlaboured, unlearned, unpolished, unposted, unreclaimed, unschooled, untutored, waste, wild), garoto das ruas (mudlark), bárbaro (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, brute, bumbling, cloddish, cruel, fell, lawless, low-lived, ruffianly, tramontane, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, wild). (various references)

Romanian

huligan (bulldozer, bully, hoodlum, hooligan, rough, rough neck, rowdy, ruffian, tough), haimana (gutter-snipe, loafer, ragamuffin, Ranger, renegade, scapegrace, street arab, tramp, truant, vagabond). (various references)

Russian 

грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skitnica (bum, drifter, hobo, landloper, landlouper, loafer, runagate, sundowner, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer). (various references)

Turkish

serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), bitirim. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thằng vô lại, thằng du côn, thô bỉ (churlish, grossly, harsh, scurrilous, uncivil), om sòm lỗ mãng, �"n � o (bobbery, bounce, noisy, rakety, riotous, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "LARRIKIN": larrikins. (additional references)

Misspellings

"LARRIKIN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Albarracin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: airn, akin, anil, aril, ilia, ilka, inia, kail, kain, karn, kiln, kina, kirn, knar, lain, lair, lank, lari, lark, liar, link, lira, liri, nail, nark, rail, rain, raki, rani, rank, rial, rink.

-5 letters: ail, ain, air, ani, ark, ilk, ink, irk, kin, kir, lar, lin, nil, ran, ria, rin.

+1 letter: larrikins.