Synonyms for larrikin
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lar-i-kin |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlær ɪ kɪn |
Top 10 synonyms for larrikin Other synonyms for the word larrikin
Définition of larrikin
- As in hoodlum : noun crook
- "Nothing like the Australian larrikin when he gets going," you will be told.
- Extract from : « The Pacific Triangle » by Sydney Greenbie
- The larrikin turned away, and beckoned his comrades to follow him.
- Extract from : « While the Billy Boils » by Henry Lawson
- I'm as good a man as him, though I'm a larrikin and he's a twopenny lord.
- Extract from : « Tiny Luttrell » by Ernest William Hornung
- They have not yet arrived at that precise stage of civilisation that develops the Rough, the Larrikin, or the Hooligan.
- Extract from : « The Inhabitants of the Philippines » by Frederic H. Sawyer
- Apart from bush terms, there are town appellations, such as 'larrikin,' which means a 'rough.'
- Extract from : « Town Life in Australia » by R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
- Were its use restricted to the bullock-driver and the larrikin one could make excuses; but this is not so.
- Extract from : « The Awful Australian » by Valerie Desmond
- The word is younger than the Australian larrikin, of doubtful origin (see p. 190), but older than Fr.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley
- The "larrikin" easily gets a job, and works by fits and starts when it suits him, or when he wants money.
- Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
- More familiar is the Australian “larrikin,” which apparently came into use about 1870 in Melbourne.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 » by Various
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