What's the difference between roddy and rowdy?

Roddy


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of rods or twigs.
  • (a.) Ruddy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
  • (2) After running the 49ers close at Candlestick Park last weekend, they are giving Carolina everything they’ve got here at the Georgia Dome, Matt Ryan hitting Roddy White down the seam for a 39-yard score.
  • (3) The FA and Premier League are often seen as being at loggerheads but a Premier League spokesman stressed that, as Roddy's work emphasises, this is not the case.
  • (4) When he was at Heinemann in the 1980s, he was rummaging through unsolicited manuscripts and came across Roddy Doyle's The Commitments and the first chapter of Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent.
  • (5) "It is something Ged Roddy [the Premier League's director of youth], Dan Ashworth [the FA director of elite development] and I have worked closely on with the EPP [Elite Player Performance Plan].
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No helmets required: Scotland’s Roddy Grant is tackled by New Zealand’s Scott Curry at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
  • (7) She seemed to have been on screen for ever, with Lassie, National Velvet, Mickey Rooney and Roddy McDowall.
  • (8) There are certainly some who see a little irony in Facebook demanding more privacy for users ... Roddy Mansfield (@roddymansfield) @GuardianJessica @jamesrbuk all that is 'huge' is the hypocrisy of tech firms who colluded with the NSA for years.
  • (9) The first resulted in the deaths of McKerr, Burns and Toman; the second led to the death of Michael Tighe, shot on a farm near an IRA arms cache; and the third involved the killing of two INLA members, Seamus Grew and Roddy Carroll, at another checkpoint.
  • (10) Forearm vasodilation occurred promptly as previously observed by Roddie and Shepard (7).
  • (11) The show, presented by Thornton and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, featured C-list celebrities such as former EastEnder Marc Bannerman, James Hewitt, athlete Iwan Thomas, Big Brother winner Kate Lawler, TV presenter Jenny Powell and glamour model Victoria Silvstedt.
  • (12) I had 50 people I could invite to this game but I only have one friend who’s a Cubs fan and I knew what it would mean to him,” said Roddy, 28, sporting an Indians cap and shirt.
  • (13) Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch and company are well balanced on offense, but will have to play without sack man defensive end Chris Clemons who suffered a season ending injury - that will put more pressure on a strong secondary that will have its hands full with Julio Jones and Roddy White.
  • (14) Like the men shot dead in Lurgan, Seamus Grew, 30, and Roddy Carroll, 21, were terrorists: members of the Irish National Liberation Army.
  • (15) Falcons 20 - Seahawks 0, 4:16 2nd quarter Ryan goes for it all and HAS RODDY WHITE!
  • (16) Roddy McCuish, the council leader, told BBC Radio 4 that he had ordered an immediate reverse of the ban, imposed earlier this week.
  • (17) Frank Roddy supports the Cleveland Indians and Donald Trump.
  • (18) The receiving tandem of Julio Jones and Roddy White remains one of the best in the league, and on defense Osi Umenyiora could help upgrade the pass rush.
  • (19) When Roddy had a pair of tickets for game 2 of the World Series in Cleveland, Ohio, he knew who to call.
  • (20) (Roddy Hawkins, via email) They seemed like radical consumerism.

Rowdy


Definition:

  • (n.) One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (2) Sure enough, the rowdy crowd in the Fox News audience gave him a lusty boo - the loudest of a rambunctious night and maybe of the entire primary season so far - while Gingrich called him "utterly irrational" for questioning the manner of Bin Laden's killing.
  • (3) On Sunday rowdy crowds, waving Chinese flags, surrounded the government’s headquarters in a show of support for Beijing’s unprecedented decision, criticised by pro-democracy activists and legal experts as a massive blow to Hong Kong’s judicial independence.
  • (4) Chile, backed by their rousing and rowdy red sea of fans, knew they needed to win because of Holland’s superior goal difference.
  • (5) It's not a rowdy place – think the cocktail cognoscenti trading tales over Rolling Stones classics – so come to expand your palate (but squeeze your wallet!).
  • (6) "I went to see Brazil play Sweden in the Silverdome in Detroit in 1994 and despite the presence of rowdy Brazilians, the atmosphere was flat.
  • (7) He had absolute control of a very rowdy crowd without pandering to them at all, and was so delightfully silly that it actually turned them into a pleasant bunch of people.
  • (8) Yesterday, the first session back after half-term break (rowdiness isn't the only thing that makes parliament seem like school), David Cameron welcomed the fact that Miliband had adopted a consensual style: "I thought I might miss Punch and Judy, but this is refreshing!"
  • (9) As he watched the rowdy march pass, Jason Rose cheered in support.
  • (10) Lord Justice Leveson joined in, like the headmaster walking in on a rowdy classroom.
  • (11) In Fairplay we passed up the grill at McCall’s Park Bar – a rowdy tavern packed with hunters and cowboys – in favour of spaghetti at the Valiton Hotel .
  • (12) It is two minutes from the nearest bus stop but the drunks and rowdies never seemed to find it.
  • (13) The chants ranged from innocuous (drinking beer and not wanting to return to work on Monday) to sexist, to outright racist (“I’d rather be a Paki than a grass”), in particular directed towards someone who I can only assume contacted the train manager in relation to the rowdy behaviour of the fans.” Another witness, who wished to remain anonymous, said the fans were not wearing Chelsea colours but were chanting “about how they’d just won the League Cup and how they’re top of the league”.
  • (14) The funniest heckle I’ve ever had At a chain comedy club notorious for rowdy stags and hens, a group of 14 stags decided to turn my set into a Q&A session.
  • (15) The secret service's reputation for rowdy behaviour was reinforced in April 2012 in the runup to Obama's visit to the Caribbean resort of Cartagena in Colombia, where 13 agents and officers were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before the president's arrival.
  • (16) It’s special for us to play in this country,” said Zabaleta of the hordes of rowdy supporters that have followed them around Brazil.
  • (17) Candy Crowley, the moderator at Tuesday night's presidential debate, is coming under intense criticism from Romney supporters for the way she intervened in the rowdy dispute between the two presidential candidates over Libya .
  • (18) And the best of Phife’s verses always tended to be based in rowdy, bawdy expression.
  • (19) Until recently, Belgrade was more likely to be visited by younger travellers interrailing around Europe, looking to enjoy its rowdy nightlife, than those out for a city break.
  • (20) "I have the impression from watching Question Time that audiences have got much more rowdy in recent years.

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