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roarn.1 Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: roar v.1 Etymology: < roar v.1In sense 1c (especially in the phrase in (also on) a roar) sometimes difficult to distinguish from roar n.2 2. Compare the Old English prefixed form gerār roaring, howling (compare y- prefix):OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 10 Jan. 14 Þær he næfre naht oþres ne geseah ne ne gehyrde butan leona grymetunge ond wulfa gerar. 1. the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > roar or bellow the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > roar or bellow α. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vi. 2183 (MED) A dragoun..Com in rampende..With such a noise and such a rore That thei agast were. c1425 (c1400) 17964 (MED) Thei broght tho many boles & bores With lowyng & with loude rores. a1500 (?a1475) (Cambr. Ff.2.38) 6932 (MED) The beste hym felyd smetyn sore: He caste a crye and a rore. c1540 (?a1400) 8518 Þen Andromoca..With a rufull rore rent of hir clothis. 1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 115 in W. T. Ritchie (1930) IV. 285 The pure pig gaif a rore [rhyme moir]. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. i. 320 Sure it was the roare Of a whole heard of Lyons. View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 22 in The rout that made the hideous rore. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil 140 The slipp'ry God..he seem a bristly Boar, Or imitates the Lion's angry Roar. 1743 A. Hill ii. 14 Out-bursting here, fierce Roars, with Roars combin'd, Mix'd their clash'd Curses, wild as fighting Wind. 1774 O. Goldsmith III. 201 They all seize it with a bound, at the same time expressing their fierce pleasure with a roar. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in (new ed.) 62 The panther's roar came muffled, while I sat Low in the valley. 1853 C. Kingsley II. vii. 192 A roar of hired applause interrupted him. 1885 6 Oct. 2/1 When the names of the agents..came out, you should have heard the roar of savage ‘boos’. 1929 H. Walpole ii. iv. 148 The roars of the lions could be heard quivering the silences in the thickness of the jungle. 1972 J. Gunn xx. 118 He gave a roar of pain that drowned out the engine. 1989 N. Williams & C. Breen 128 At first it was only the sound of annoyance, the raised roar of a cow whose calf had gone to the wrong side of the fence. 2001 2 May c6/6 The next day he drained a 40-footer on the 18th hole. There was a huge roar from the crowd. society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] c1520 Vox Populi 88 in W. C. Hazlitt (1866) III. 271 The encrease was never more. Thus goythe the voyce and rore. And truthe yt is indeade. the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > loud, coarse, or immoderate laughter > instance or outburst of 1675 C. Cotton 126 This fellow subjugates the Earth In a perpetual roar of mirth, Of fidling, dancing, wenching, drinking. 1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy II. 277 This Conclusion was so diverting as to set the Table in a Roar. 1757 (ed. 2) clxxi. 69 Hark! what a roar of laughter..! He is certainly entertaining his company. 1773 R. Graves III. x. xxix. 176 It was Tugwell who had ‘set the table on a roar’, by getting upon the end of it, and holding forth in imitation of his Master and Mr. Whitfield. 1777 T. Campbell xli. 424 His flashes of wit and humour keep the table in a roar. 1803 No. 4. 8 [He] kept the company in a roar of laughter. 1824 M. R. Mitford I. 219 He was once in danger of being turned out of the gallery for setting all around him in a roar. 1839 A. Mathews III. iii. 58 His personification of an elderly respectable sort of gentleman, very sea-sick..was ludicrous in the extreme, and set the house ‘on a roar’ at almost every word. 1870 July 123/2 Good actors..will set the house on a roar, simply by the infection of their laughter. 1872 T. Allan & G. Allan (1891) 416 Where's a' his funny sayin's, that set a' the Geordies in a roar? 1891 R. Kipling xii. 237 A roar of laughter interrupted him. 1908 H. H. Peerless Diary 8 June in (2003) 120 We..listened with considerable amusement to a comical cheap-jack..who kept the people in a continual roar of laughter. 1925 V. Lindsay i. 59 Yorick is dead... Where are those oddities and capers now That used to ‘set the table on a roar’?. 1953 S. J. Perelman in 14 Mar. 31/3 I..had everybody in a roar pretending to swallow a table knife. 1995 T. F. Evans in F. D. Crawford 32 Even without the felicitous similarity of Marconi and Maccaroni, this must have had the house on a roar. 2000 S. Brett (2001) vi. 43 There was a roar of raucous laughter from the bar. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > [noun] a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1957) i. ii. l. 11 And thai [sc. the winds]..About thar closouris brayng with mony a rare. 1548 W. Patten G v With..horrible rore and terrible thunderinge of gunnes. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour iv. 5998 in (1931) I Than, with ane rair, the erth sall ryve, And swolly thame. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer xiii. 713 The floods of troubled aire to pitchie stormes increase,..Encountring with abhorred roares. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil 43 Come then, and leave the Waves tumultuous roar. 1729 J. Gay i. viii. 13 Old oaks can defy the thunder's roar. 1768 T. Gray Triumphs of Owen in 104 Talymalfra's rocky shore Echoing to the battle's roar. 1797 A. Radcliffe II. i. 50 The roar of those waters has made my head dizzy already. 1816 Ld. Byron xxii. 14 Arm! Arm! it is..the cannon's opening roar. 1856 E. K. Kane II. xxiv. 245 We see its deep indigo horizon, and hear its roar against the icy beach. 1897 R. H. Davis (1911) 9 That statue of Nathan Hale which stands in the City Hall Park, above the roar of Broadway. 1934 47 23/2 The four engines were started, ‘revved’ with a deafening roar..and then left quietly ‘idling’. 1967 Nov. 67/1 With a roar an avalanche of water escapes. 2001 14 May 9/6 The..song of the nightjar has replaced the roar of American nuclear bombers at Greenham Common. Phrasesthe world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > conspicuously 1845 C. Dickens 6 Aug. (1977) IV. 347 It was a most prodigious success; and went, with a roar, all through. 1903 G. B. Shaw 12 June (1972) II. 331 ‘The Admirable Bashville’..went with a roar from beginning to end. 1907 1 May 308/2 Everything went with a roar. 1996 11 Feb. h4/2 Young employees who begin with a roar typically do not flame out after 30 years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † roarn.2Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch roere. Etymology: < Middle Dutch roere (Dutch roer ), cognate with Old Saxon hrōra (Middle Low German rōre , rōr ), Old High German ruora (Middle High German ruore , German Ruhr , now rare as a simplex in this sense, compare Aufruhr uproar n.), noun of action < the Germanic base of rore v. Compare slightly later rore v.Compare ( < the same Germanic base) Old English hrōr , Middle Dutch roer (Dutch roer , now rare), Old Saxon hrōr (Middle Low German rōr ), all in sense ‘active’. The rhyme of rore with pore (see poor adj.) in quot. a1413 at sense 1α. confirms that the word was originally distinct from roar n.1, with which it appears to have merged later (compare sense 2). With sense 1, compare (with in a roar) Middle Dutch in roere bringen , in roere zijn , in roere werden , etc. and (with on a roar) the less common constructionsan roere maken , an roere zijn , etc. In sense 2 sometimes difficult to distinguish from roar n.1 1c; in later use in this sense probably apprehended by most speakers as showing roar n.1 Obsolete. the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] α. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 45 Why nyl I brynge al Troye vpon a rore [a1425 Corpus Cambr. 61 roore; rhyme pore]? ?a1425 (a1415) (Harl.) (1917) 71 (MED) Þise forseide prestis & knyȝtis..boolden hem in synne, þat al þis worlde is sett in rore, in bataile, & in werre. (Harl. 221) 436 Rore, or truble amonge þe puple, tumultus, commotio, disturbium. 1490 W. Caxton tr. (1885) xx. 456 For therof ye shall see all fraunce in a rore & trowble. 1526 Acts xix. 29 The cite was on a roore. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in (1557) 41/1 Thus should all the realme fall on a rore. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus f. 292 The people beeyng in a greate rore willed enquierie..to be made who it was. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. ii. 2 By your Art..you haue Put the wild waters in this Rore . View more context for this quotation the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > vehement, convulsive, or wild laughter > outburst of 1604 W. Shakespeare v. i. 187 Where be your gibes now?..your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roare . View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). roarv.1Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch reeren , reren (Dutch regional (eastern) reeren ), Middle Low German rāren (German regional (Low German) raren , reren , roren ), Old High German rēren (Middle High German rēren , German röhren , now only of the cry of a rutting stag) < a Germanic base apparently ultimately of imitative origin; perhaps related to an Indo-European base seen also in Sanskrit rā- to bark, Church Slavonic rarŭ sound, Russian (regional) rajat′ to sound, Lithuanian rieti to bark, scold, rojoti to crow in an alarmed manner, Latvian riet to bark. Compare rere v.2With sense 1c compare earlier roarer n.1 2, roaring n.1 3. 1. the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > roar or bellow α. OE (Northumbrian) Pref. Marcum in quo uox leonis in heremo rugientis auditur : marc in ðæm stefn leas in woestern roeðe uel rarende uel bellende gehered bið. a1425 (?c1350) (1964) 242 Lions, beres, bath bul and bare, Þat rewfully gan rope and rare. c1440 (?a1400) l. 784 (MED) A blake bustous bere..He romede, he rarede, that roggede all þe erthe. c1550 (1979) vi. 31 The suyne began to quhryne quhen thai herd the asse rair. 1584 King James VI & I (1955) I. 87 For lyons young at night beginnis to raire. 1666 Pleugh-song in J. Forbes (ed. 2) sig. K I shal brod him [sc. an ox] while he rair. 1843 J. Ballantine 9 Nor marvel ye sair, Tho' close by your lug a bit donkey should rair. 1923 G. Watson 245 Rair,..of cattle: to low. 1977 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel II. 154 To bellow (of bulls), [Argyll] rair. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 264v Þe lomb knoweþ his owne moder in so moche þat if he roreþ [v.r. arereþ; L. errauerit] among many schepe in a flokke, anon by bletynge he knoweþ þe voice of his owne mooder. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in (1998) I. 59 He lay at the plunge evirmair, Sa lang as any ravin did rair. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 696 in (1931) I The reukis sall rair, that men sall on thame rew. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 300 Jan. 15, the bees roared, and were as busy as they are in the height of the working season. 1793 R. Burns (ed. 2) II. 171 Ye bitterns, till the quagmire reels, Rair for his sake. 1882 A. Jessopp in May 734 The two male birds ‘roared and bellowed’ over their heads. 1883 C. Harpur 78 Why roar the bull-frogs in the tea-tree marsh? 1913 Dec. 413/3 I well remember how the bees roared. 1982 (Nexis) 19 Sept. x. 12 This is a region with..beetles that hiss like steam engines,..and frogs that roar, grunt, trill, hammer or whistle. 1992 T. Pratchett 26 The stems bent and broke, and lay down in a circle. The bees roared, and fled. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > wheeze 1842 W. C. Spooner (ed. 17) 139 Some horses will roar in the trot. 1880 W. Day 40 At the Cape of Good Hope, I am told, horses never roar. 1889 25 Nov. 3/5 The tendency to roar is not a matter of heredity. 1915 Oct. 792/1 Early one forenoon all sixty horses roared lustily as we pulled up the last pitch in the steep side of a gulch. 2006 M. E. Derry xi. 212 No sound was heard when the animal was simply standing, but some horses roared with little movement. 2. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > roar or bellow [verb (intransitive)] the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > roar or bellow α. OE (Julius) 21 Oct. 236 Hwilum hy [sc. dioflu] him raredon on swa hryðro. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) l. 451 Iuliene..bigon to beaten þen belial of helle, & he to rarin [L. clamabat] reowliche. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 16104 (MED) Ne heres þou noght on ilk-a side hu þai apon þe rar [Trin. Cambr. on þe rore]? a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7341 (MED) Þe devels obout þam þan in helle, On þam salle ever-mare rare and yhelle. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxvi. §1. 272 He that askis a nother thynge he is all in silence bifor god, þof he rowt and rare all day. 1686 G. Stuart 24 They..skreem'd, and raird beyond all ayme. 1717 A. Ramsay xi That a' the warld might hear the din Rair frae ilk head. 1809 T. Donaldson 146 What maks ye thus to rant an' rair? 1894 R. O. Heslop at Rair Whativver is he rairin there at? ?2002 I. W. D. Forde ii. iv. 144 He rowstit an raired at the gaird fur no daein hiz dewtie. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) iv. 210 Seo dreorige moder..rarigende hi astrehte æt þæs halgan apostoles fotum. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 102 To Rayre [1483 BL Add. 89074 Rare] or grete, vagire. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil v. xi. 26 All togidder gan to weip and rair. 1568 in W. T. Ritchie (1930) IV. 99 Rarand lyk ane ȝung barne or ane seik wyfe. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius 92 v Dauid prayed lamenting and murning, I am afflicted,..I rarit for ye disquietnes of my hart. 1741 in J. Stuart (1842) II. 14 Upon which Lady Margaret, that was in the next room, came in, and seeing her husband in that pickle, she roard and cryd, and was so frightened that her head turnd, and is since dilirious. 1787 J. Beattie 76 The Babe roars. a1843 J. Stewart (1857) 175 Bairns wi' hunger rair. c1880 W. G. Lyttle 11 Puir fellow! A thocht a peety o' him. A'm shair he was roarin' fur he put his hankerchay up tae his face. 1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ 62 How the daughter..no sooner looked on the dead than broke down—‘and fair roared and grat when she saw him there’. 1973 P. O'Brian ix. 252 Little common babies, that mewl, pewl and roar all in that same tedious, deeply vulgar, self-centred monotone. 1996 W. G. McPherson in S. Stronach 59 The Princess wis in an afa state, an roart an grat, an cried ti the aul Witch to fess the Prince back again. c1450 C. d'Orleans (1941) 178 (MED) Thus did y so depart the feleship And gan me forth to my poor loggyng peke; But alle that nyght myn hert did rore & seke. 1490 W. Caxton tr. (1885) x. 261 His hert rored in his beli for ioye. 1667 J. Milton vi. 871 Confounded Chaos roard, And felt tenfold confusion in thir fall. View more context for this quotation a1693 M. Bruce (1709) 12 God gave them upon the Finger ends, while all their Ribs Rared again. 1755 No. 83. ⁋8 To roughen the verse and make it roar again with reiteration of the letter R. 1764 J. Wilson (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 32 No rest their tortur'd breasts can find: Detection flames, and vengeance roars behind. 1839 J. Galt iv. 24 Dark abysses, wherein fury roar'd, Mocking as drivel Niagara's roar. 1915 4 663/1 Business, roaring with pain, fell back into the Republican arms, and Bryan was defeated for President. a1994 C. Bukowski (1999) 99 The heart roars like a lion At what they've done to us. 3. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (intransitive)] > of places c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2017 He broghte hym to the halle That roreth of the cryyng and the sown. c1600 (1907) 77 It [sc. the town] roareth with fooleries. 1631 T. Dekker sig. F2 Hee that was wont to make Tauernes roare with the noise of gallon pots. 1780 T. Dwight 6 Lo! where deep forests roar with loud alarms. 1884 Nov. 156/1 The youths that paint..a pilot-boat..breaking on a reef that seems to roar with the surf. 1918 C. E. Mulford xviii. 236 The canyon roared and seemed to shudder as the crash boomed out. 1974 W. Condry xiii. 134 The trees when in flower really roar with bees. 2003 8 May 74/4 This space roars with soulful house and dubbed-out beats at tonight's dance party. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 6470 Ros a tempest rorand loude; myrk was þe skie, grete was þe cloude. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) v. 1 (MED) Eolus..doþ þe windes rore. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll.) 912 He com to a rowghe watir whych rored. 1570 R. Sempill (single sheet) Our cair may moue the stonis And hauie rockis to rair. 1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley iv. sig. Gv Does not the windes roare? the Sea roare? the Welkin roare? 1669 Earl of Winchelsea 24 On Friday,..the Mountain again roared with much loudness. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer IV. xiii. 166 Hark! the Gates burst, the brazen Barriers roar! 1764 (1765) 3 223 I caused the fire to be gradually encreased till it roared again in the furnace. 1830 W. Taylor I. 213 The thunders roar, and the voice of winds tells of this unatonable vengeance. 1852 G. Daniel vi. 86 The guns all prittled, prattled, And the cannons roar'd and rattled. 1890 R. Kipling II. xxxiv. 130 A rock-splintered river roared and howled..below. 1941 T. Kitching Diary 8 Dec. in (1998) ii. 6 We all awake, sirens are wailing, planes are roaring. 1978 A. S. Byatt i. v. 50 Daniel pushed a shilling into the gas meter, and lit his fire, an old Sunbeam which roared and spat in uneasy bursts. 2003 R. MacFarlane (2004) iv. 118 Rivers of green meltwater roar and bluster around the base of the dunes. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (intransitive)] > actions 1787 R. Burns (new ed.) 150 To guard, or draw, or wick a bore, Or up the rink like Jehu roar. 1805 G. McIndoe 55 Ye're well set on man, but ye're roaran, Whatna way's that to play a forehan'? 1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown 38 Roaring up the rink he flies, The guarded tee to clear. a1899 J. Broom in R. Wallace (1899) p. xl The blue gleaming squares of cleared ice, upon which the merry stones roared. 1951 Jan. 301 The stones roar up the slide. Strange words and terms sound in the air... ‘Try an ootwick.’ 1994 D. McLean 189 I stamped my feet, glancing across the rink to where the three other games were still in progress, with stones roaring along. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > break wind [verb (intransitive)] 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. III. 969 His appetite was bad, his breathing was short, wind would occasionally ‘roar away’ and then the distension lessened. 1921 R. Graves 26 The deep in-breath, The breath roaring out. 1942 June 741/1 In the hollow formed by scarified hills the malodorous vapors of brimstone rise, and jets of steam roar like the opened safety valve of some giant locomotive. 1992 Apr. 63/1 On October 23, 1989, 85,000 pounds of process gases roared through the..chemical complex in Pasadena. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > in revelry society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous a1450 (1885) 276 (MED) Loke þat no man nor no myron of myne With no noyse be neghand me nere..What rebalde þat redely will rore, I schall mete with þat myron to-morne. 1584 J. Lyly ii. iii. 108 To th' Tap-house then lets gang, and rore. 1629 T. Dekker 215 The Gallant Roares,—Roarers drinke oathes and gall. 1632 Lyly's Gallathea (new ed.) in sig. P10v What shall wee doe being toss'd to shore? Milke some blinde Tauerne, and (there) roare. c1670 in (1890) VII. 37 We rant and rore it, night and day, we spend and never spare. 1758 D. Garrick iii. i. 36 Can he drink, dice, roar, rake and royster? 1761 C. Churchill 14 If they in cellar or in garret roar. 1766 H. Brooke I. iv. 157 These have nothing to do but..to riot it, to roar it. 1823 Ld. Byron xiv. 30 They roared, they dined, they drank. 1849 H. Melville Mardi in 28 Apr. 186/2 Mad and crazy revellers, how ye drank and roared! 1893 J. K. Snowden 124 He and a company of stout carousers came roaring home from Glusburn. 1913 G. K. Chesterton (1914) i. 15 Our greatest bards and sages have often shown a tendency to rant it and roar it like true British sailors. 2001 J. Gough ii. xxviii. 98 They used to roar it, rolling home drunk together at half two in the morning after an evening in Connollys Bar. 5. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > roar or bellow c1450 C. d'Orleans (1941) 219 (MED) Mi bollid hert doth so his sikis rore That mawgre me hit doth my wele biwray. c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 58 (MED) Houndis and woluis roryn þe psalmis, os were woluis criyng ilk to oþer. 1587 A. Fleming et al. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1367/2 The popes bull hath roared it so to be. 1599 T. Nashe 33 They..neuer leaue roaring it out..of the freedomes and immunities soursing from him. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. i. 40 That..makes him rore these Accusations forth. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller i. 7 Long before this time, she had roared it even into the ears of deaf men. 1698 J. Fryer 279 Nor will they themselves disdain to take up a Tabor and Roar out a Song. 1707 E. Ward 78 He shall roar forth Death and Destruction about the hoisting of a Water-cask. 1756 A. Murphy ii. 21 (stage direct.) The Spouting-Club, the Members seated and roaring out ‘Bravo’. 1810 G. Crabbe xix. 258 What time, the many, that unruly beast Roars its rough Joy. 1849 W. M. Thackeray (1850) I. xxxii. 320 ‘Oh, never mind,’ Bungay roared out with a great laugh. 1878 Ld. Tennyson v Sir Richard spoke,..and we roar'd a hurrah. 1911 W. R. Thayer II. xxx. 301 Garibaldi jumped to his feet and roared that the time for humble petitions had passed. 1978 8 Dec. (Weekend section) 38/1 The crowded auditorium roars its gratitude and approval. 2001 B. K. Das tr. P. Ray lxxxix. 259 ‘Now sing!’ someone in the crowd roared out. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > roar or bellow [verb (transitive)] the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > roar or bellow > render by a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. vi. 100 At his Nurses teares He whin'd and roar'd away your Victory. View more context for this quotation 1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley iv. sig. G2 Weele Roare the rusty Rascall out of his Tobacco. 1725 A. Ramsay v. i. 72 [He] roars up Symon frae his kindly Rest. 1791 J. Boswell anno 1777 II. 142 He [sc. Johnson] will not hear you, and having a louder voice than you, must roar you down. 1848 J. S. Smith iv. ii. 209 His..resounding voice roared them into silence; and they ended applauding. 1870 J. H. L. Hesekiel 208 Johanna does not like to give the boy the breast, and he roars himself blue. 1921 J. Farnol xviii. 160 Tressady..perceiving..his fellows inclined for slumber, roared them to wakefulness. 1945 N. Coward 8 May (2000) 29 The King and Queen came out on the balcony, looking enchanting. We all roared ourselves hoarse. 1992 R. Hogan & R. Burnham vi. 312 Mrs. Skeffington roars herself into the position of a dramatic critic. 1900 L. Creswicke II. i. 24 Their officers..cheered and roared them up the precipitous ascent. 1932 J. Stevens viii. 109 Their hearts thumped and the hair on their chests stiffened valiantly as the Big Feller roared them on. 1960 24 May 18/6 The Frenchman was to serve and with the wildly excited crowd roaring him home it looked all over. 1978 (Nexis) 22 June d1 With a fanatical crowd of 41,000 roaring them on, the Argentinians roared past Peru, 6-0, at Rosario. 1988 S. Donald Prickly Heat in K. Harwood (1989) vi. 35 The crowd get to their feet to roar him on. 2007 (Nexis) 2 July 52 Fallon was roared into the winner's enclosure following his first Irish Group One success since returning from a six-month riding ban. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold 1917 13 July 3/6 Mag will roar me up if I get back without a settlement. 1947 N. Lindsay 69 Bill was able to roar him up, anyway, for having the blinkin' cheek to come shoving his nose into Bill's affairs. 1979 R. Duffield 194 I generally don't roar people up who are working for me. 2006 P. Carey (2007) x. 61 He roared me up for getting my new shirt dirty. the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh loudly or coarsely 1689 T. Shadwell 29 There was such a Laughing, they Roar'd out again. 1696 C. Cibber 96 I..bore it with as unmov'd a Countenance as Tom Worthy does a thundering Jest in a Comedy when the whole House roars at it. 1797 M. Robinson IV. 145 The whole circle roared with laughter. 1815 B. Wynne 28 July (1940) III. xii. 378 The Girls, who roared the whole way, laughing at the odd vehicle. 1843 C. J. Lever iii. 20 The whole party were roaring with laughter. 1893 410 I read ‘Robert Elsmere’ and roared over it. 1919 T. S. Eliot 3 Sept. (1988) I. 328 He roared with amusement, and waved to me as he drove off. 1961 Apr. 92/2 Comic Nipsey Russell..kept the audience roaring during the intervals. 2004 27 Sept. 38/2 North Koreans roared at the jokes and gasped at the love scenes. 7. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in noisy motor vehicle 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in 1st Ser. IV. 147 The ship..went roaring through the waves. 1847 W. M. Thackeray 43 Lady Jane Ranville's great coach had roared away down the streets long before. 1854 S. Sidney ix. 157 The train roared away like a monstrous rocket. 1923 26 Sept. 658/3 Marsden roared through on his last lap. 1941 Feb. 26/2 Murray took the puck..and came roaring out, angular legs working. 1951 26 230/2 Wesleyan roars to victory. 1970 P. Laurie iii. 69 The one getting in slams the door and roars off, nearly running my mate over. 1987 (Nexis) 31 Oct. Share prices roared higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, gaining more than 730 yen and wiping out the previous day's losses. 2001 J. Boyle 84 You'll hear him cursing you out the cab window before the lorry roars away up the street. 1923 H. A. Franck xx. 371 Having roared the engine almost out from under its hood, as the only antidote suggesting itself to him, he sat supinely back in his seat. 1937 30 May 7/7 Wilber..roared his car around the mile lap in 45.05 seconds. 1956 1 Aug. b27/1 The boys roared their get-away car down Maitland. 1985 C. Phillips 65 Michael announced his arrival by roaring the engine of his new bike. 2001 (Nexis) 18 Feb. 11 Police officers smiled and waved as he roared the vehicle the wrong way on Broadway. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). roarv.2 Origin: Probably either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or perhaps (ii) a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: rore v.; Dutch roeren. Etymology: Probably either a specific use of rore v. (although this word is not otherwise attested after the 16th cent.), or perhaps directly < its etymon Dutch roeren. Compare earlier (in slightly different sense) roarer n.2 and roaring n.2The author of quot. 1902 explains the origin differently; the quot. continues: ‘Melia loved metaphor, and “to roar in or roar out” anything meant a hurried, impetuous action, a simulating indeed of the wind in its fury’, i.e. assuming metaphorical use of roar v.1 English regional ( Suffolk). rare. 1902 M. B. Betham-Edwards 150 Come along, Jimmy, and help me to roar out the bread. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1a1393 n.2a1413v.1OE v.21902 |
