Larrikinism

Quick meaning: Larrikinism is a noun meaning (Australia, New Zealand) The behaviour of larrikins (hooligans); impertinent and disrespectful behaviour.

Meaning

(Australia, New Zealand) The behaviour of larrikins (hooligans); impertinent and disrespectful behaviour.

More Meanings

1. (Australia) Behaviour that is rebellious against and contemptuous of authority and convention.

Example Sentences

Good quality homes promised deliverance from the problems of illegitimacy, divorce, larrikinism, wife-desertion, general immorality and crime.

Neither Menzies nor Fraser made any attempt to wield the imagery of the legend, and Gorton's larrikinism made him unfit to hold high office in the eyes of Liberal Party powerbrokers.

The apparent decline of larrikinism in Sydney in the late 1890s provides a specific illustration of the ambiguous relation between official policies, socioeconomic change, and change in deviant behavior.

I would have thrashed him well at the start but for the letters I constantly received from home warning me against giving offence to the parents, and knew that to set my foot on the children's larrakinism would require measures that would gain their mother's ill-will at once.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include larrikin, larikin, larrikiness, larrykin, lairiser, ratbaggery.

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