laddish

English

Adjective

laddish (comparative more laddish, superlative most laddish)

1. (UK) Like a stereotypical jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.
   • 2003, Linda McDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth

     ...versions of a laddish or protest heterosexual masculinity...

   • 2006, Carolyn Jackson, Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure

     This underachievement is linked to a laddish culture...