ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated or extended form of row (a violent disturbance); orig. dialect
EXAMPLE (for adj.)
“… If a Virgin blushes, we no longer cry the Blues. He that Drinks till he stares, is no more Tow-Row, but Honest. A Youngster in a Scrape, is a Word out of Date; and what bright Man says , I was Joab’d by the Dean …”
From: The Tatlers
By Isaac Bickerstaff. 1710
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