roughneck

roughneck
    n 1: a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: {bully}, {tough},
         {hooligan}, {ruffian}, {roughneck}, {rowdy}, {yob}, {yobo},
         {yobbo}]
    

67 Moby Thesaurus words for "roughneck":
      Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, boor, boorish, bounder, bourgeois,
      bruiser, bullyboy, cad, carlish, churl, churlish, cloddish, clown,
      clownish, epicier, goon, gorilla, groundling, gun, gunsel,
      guttersnipe, hatchet man, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum,
      hooligan, hooliganish, ill-bred fellow, looby, loobyish, lout,
      loutish, low fellow, lubberly, lumpish, mucker, mug, mugger,
      muscle man, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, plug-ugly, punk,
      raffish, ribald, rodman, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffian,
      ruffianly, strong-arm man, terror, torpedo, tough, trigger man,
      ugly customer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yahoo, yokel,
      yokelish