roister
pronunciation
How to pronounce roister in British English:
UK ['rɔɪstə]
How to pronounce roister in American English:
US [ˈrɔɪstɚ]
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- Verb:
- engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making
Word Origin
- roister
- roister: see rural
- roister (v.)
- "bluster, swagger, be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent," 1580s, from an obsolete noun roister "noisy bully" (1550s, displaced by 19c. by roisterer), from Middle French ruistre "ruffian," from Old French ruiste "boorish, gross, uncouth," from Latin rusticus (see rustic (adj.)). Related: Roistered; roistering. Ralph Royster-Doyster is the title and lead character of what is sometimes called the first English comedy (Udall, 1555).
Example
- 1. Year old end appears the long triangle that come roister all the more .