roisterer

Gang-y-gate swinger, a fighting man, who goes swaggering in the road (or gate); a roisterer who takes the wall of every one.

Cavalier in English was early applied in a contemptuous sense to an overbearing swashbuckler—a roisterer or swaggering gallant.

Will you find in your famous Place Louis Quinze any roisterer of the regency grown old and careful of his diet?

"You cannot deny, Hawke, that you dined at the marble house with the beauty whom we are all toasting," said a rallying roisterer.

Heinrich was not a roisterer like his father: he was a man of education and dignity.