bangster, bangeister

& adj. [Eng. bang; -ster.] A. As substantive. Properly: One capable of inflicting "banging" blows; a burly ruffian, a rough, a bully, a quarrelsome person. (0. Eng. & Scotch .) "Ilk bingeister and limmer of this land With frie brydell sall quham thai pleis molest." Pinkerton : Scottish Poems , ii. 337. ( Jamie son .) B. As adjective : Violent, quarrelsome. "A' kens they bangster chiels o' yore, First amity an luxrie tore." Learmont: Poems , p. 29. (Jamie son.)