- arakureotoko rowdy fellow, tough, bully, ruffian
Learner may meet this in fiction or manga, not everyday polite speech, for men seen as wild, rough, and dangerous.
夜道で荒くれ男に絡まれた。
Yomichi de arakureotoko ni karamareta.
I was hassled by a rowdy man on the night road.
彼は昔、荒くれ男だったらしい。
Kare wa mukashi, arakureotoko datta rashii.
Apparently he was a rowdy fellow in the past.
⚖️ Not 不良 (furyō), which means a juvenile delinquent; 荒くれ男 stresses rough, wild behavior rather than delinquency.
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