单词 | roarer |
释义 | roarern.1 1. a. A person who or thing which roars. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > roar or bellow > person roarera1425 bellower?1624 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. li. 4 Thou hast delyuered me..fro roreris [a1382 E. V. rorende men; L. rugientibus] maad redi to mete. ?1548 W. Kethe Tye thy Mare Tom Boye sig. B iiv Lyke roarars and criers In churches ye charmed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 16 What cares these roarers for the name of King? View more context for this quotation 1689 C. Cotton Winter in Poems 650 Into our Fortress, let us hast Where all the Roarers of the North Can neither Storm, nor Starve us forth. 1715 Flying Post 27 Jan. For roarers of the word ‘Church’, £40. For a set of ‘No Roundhead’ roarers, £40. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 144. ⁋8 The roarer..has no other qualification for a champion of controversy than a hardened front and strong voice. 1864 C. W. King Gnostics 54 Bromius the Roarer, an appropriate epithet of the Grecian Dionysus. 1874 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 669 To exhibit the powers of every village roarer, and to prevent all congregational singing. 1903 W. S. Blunt Seven Golden Odes 33 Fled to the land of the lions, roarers importunate. 2001 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y) (Nexis) 24 July d1 The 31,569 roarers who'd come out for the four-game series. b. A noisy, riotous reveller; a person who indulges in wild drunken behaviour. Cf. roaring boy n. at roaring adj. and adv. Compounds. Now rare.In later use chiefly archaic, after Elizabethan and Jacobean examples. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > one who creates a disturbance or rioter hurlerc1440 sturblerc1440 perturbera1450 riotora1450 frayera1513 peace-breaker?1533 perturbatora1538 interturber1538 rioter1543 router1584 break-peace1593 roarer1622 uproarer1629 mobber1744 riotist1831 society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [noun] > noisy or riotous revellerc1405 roister1549 roisterkin1553 care-away1576 roister-doister1592 mad shaver1611 roarer1622 wassailer1637 scourer1672 roisterer1684 tear-rogue1685 howler1875 1622 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster (new ed.) v. 72 We are thy Mirmidons, thy Guard, thy Rorers. 1639 T. Walkley tr. J. de Luna Pursuit Hist. Lazarillo xi, in D. Rowland tr. H. de Mendoza Pleasant Hist. Lazarillo (new ed.) sig. R5 Canil was dressed like a Roarer. 1640 ‘Ben-Arod Gad’ Wandering-Jew 49 I am a man of the Sword; a Battoon Gallant,..in rugged English, a Roarer. a1704 T. Brown tr. Beroaldus Declam. in Def. Gaming in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) i. 149 Is there any so besotted to the Bottle, which this Discourse of Pliny's..cannot reclaim..from the Suppers of Roarers to the Dinners of the Cinicks? 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 40. ⁋3 All your Top-Wits were Scowrers, Rakes, Roarers, and Demolishers of Windows. 1780 T. Holcroft Alwyn I. 21 This fear, however, presently evaporated, and I joined the roarers above. a1872 E. Atherstone Love, Poetry, Philos., & Gout i. i, in Dramatic Wks. (1888) 198 Hast thou not..been..a roarer among the mirthful over the wine-cups?—and a companion to midnight debauchees? 1873 Judy 16 July 124/2 Not being of the Roaring Lambs, a roarer and reveller, their enjoyment chafes my ruffled spirit somewhat. 1940 W. H. Auden Another Time 43 Where..the Giant is enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white boy is a roarer And Jill goes down on her back. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of bawdy-basket1567 ballad-monger1598 land-pirate1608 map-monger1639 bookwoman1647 mercury1648 second-hand bookseller1656 Bible-seller1707 map-seller1710 stall-man1761 book auctioneer1776 scrap-monger1786 colporteur1796 death-hunter1851 train boy1852 speech-crier1856 roarer1865 looker-out1894 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Aug. 6/2 One of a class of men known in the trade as ‘roarers’ went round with a few evening papers which he announced to be ‘extraordinary editions’. 2. A horse that makes a loud abnormal noise when breathing, esp. during exercise, typically as a result of partial paralysis of muscles of the larynx. Cf. broken-winded adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > horse that wheezes roarer1778 piper1785 whistler1824 wheezer1831 trumpeter1844 1778 Ld. Mansfield in J. Oldham Mansfield MSS (1992) I. 332 Defendant made him cough [&] said [he was] not broken winded. [He] was a roarer. 1796 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses I. 197 Horses labouring under the worst stage of this disease, are styled..Roarers, from the noise they make in work. 1831 W. Youatt Horse ix. 160 Many more carriage-horses become roarers, than those that are used for the saddle alone. 1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1873) II. 20 This unfortunate bay was a roarer to a degree which required the roundest word for perdition to give you any idea of it. 1922 C. S. Plumb Stud. Farm Animals 176 A horse may be a roarer and be driven some distance without making much if any noise. 1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 5 Apr. As soon as we brought him into Gulfstream Park..we knew he was a roarer... He sounded like the Bombay Express. 2004 Horse & Hound 8 Jan. 14/3 It is not unusual to see ‘roarers’ or ‘whistlers’ fitted with a respiratory aid such as a tongue strap. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent thing starOE dainty1340 daisyc1485 say-piece1535 bravery1583 paragon1585 daint1633 rapper1653 supernaculum1704 dandy1785 roarer1813 sneezer1823 plum1825 trimmer1827 sockdolager1838 rasper1844 dinger1861 job1863 fizzer1866 champagne1880 beauty1882 pie1884 twanger1889 smasher1894 crackerjack1895 Taj Mahal1895 beaut1896 pearler1901 lollapalooza1904 bearcat1909 beaner1911 grande dame1915 Rolls-Royce1916 the nuts1917 pipperoo1939 rubydazzler1941 rumpty1941 rumptydooler1941 snodger1941 sockeroo1942 sweetheart1942 zinger1955 blue-chipper1957 ring-a-ding1959 premier cru1965 sharpie1970 stormer1978 1813 M. L. Weems Drunkard's Looking Glass (ed. 2) 17 I am..a proper hard horse, depend! may-be I an't a Roarer! 1827 Massachusetts Spy 10 Jan. 1/4 The Albany beau..drinks brandy and talks politics, swears at the servants, and quarrels with his landlord and is in fact what he styles himself, ‘a real roarer’. 1868 H. L. Williams Black-Eyed Beauty ix. 42 Matty had a new dress, ‘loads’ of jewelry, and a bonnet that was a roarer, little as there was of it. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 224 An active young man or a bouncing lass is apt to be admiringly designated as a roarer. 1882 A. E. Sweet in A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox Sketches from ‘Texas Siftings’ 171 It was during the reign of Bob Augustine, ‘the long-ranged Roarer of Calaveras Canyon’, as he familiarly called himself. 4. A noisy or rousing song. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > rousing or rollicking song freemen's songc1575 roarer1836 corn-kister1936 belter1963 1836 F. Marryat Snarleyyow ix, in Metropolitan Apr. 344 ‘Then,’ said Jemmy, jumping off the table with his fiddle in his hand, ‘let's have the roarer, by way of a finish.’ 1843 Bradshaw's Jrnl. Apr. 287 Most shore-going folks think that the song most acceptable to a sailor would be a roarer all about ‘the battle and the breeze’. 1917 J. B. Connolly Seiners xxviii. 220 Wesley Marrs sang a song and after him Patsie Oddie followed with a roarer. 5. U.S. An oil well from which the oil flows rapidly without pumping; = gusher n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well well1652 spouting well1776 petroleum well1801 rock well1830 oil well1859 spouter1865 gusher1876 test well1877 wild cat1877 wildcat well1883 roarera1885 oiler1890 discovery1900 edge well1904 wild well1915 offset well1922 stripper1930 offset1933 production well1934 outstep1947 step-out well1948 a1885 B. J. Crew Pract. Treat. Petroleum (1887) vii. 227 We have no right, perhaps, to expect a continuance of the ‘roarers’, or ‘gushers’ as they are termed. 1903 McClure's Mag. June 190/2 So long as gas was to some degree a marketable commodity, this greatest of all ‘roarers’ must have value. 1919 Encycl. Americana XII. 305/1 For some years open gas vents known as ‘roarers’ were of interest only as a night spectacle when, having been ignited, their flames, a hundred feet in height, lighted up the surrounding country. 2006 K. Humphrey Shades of Glass 50/1 Schrader's Well was also a ‘roarer’; its Niagara-like rushing sound could be heard eighteen miles away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). roarern.2 English regional (chiefly East Anglian). Now rare. 1. A person who turns salt herrings. ΚΠ 1866 J. G. Nall Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft 301 The roarers turn over the herrings, spreading them in layers like malt upon a floor. 1869 E. FitzGerald Sea Words & Phrases Suffolk Coast in E. Anglian Notes & Queries Jan. 354 Roarers., The men who shovel out the herrings from the lugger into the ped, or from the ped along the fish-curing floor, with roaring shovels. 1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 65 Roarers: Men who salt herrings, turning them over and over. 2. A wooden basket used to carry salt herrings. Cf. roaring n.2 Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > for fish swill1352 junketa1382 fish-leepc1440 weel?a1475 hask1579 swad1602 roaring1615 rope basket1811 kit1847 cawl1865 roarer1887 fish-basket1955 1887 E. FitzGerald in East Anglian Notes & Queries 4 115 Scutcheons [are] wooden baskets..with handles a-top, to carry fresh herring. Roarers are for salt. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 179 Roarers. Wooden baskets to carry salt herrings. 1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 65 Roarer: A wooden basket used for carrying salt herrings. 1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 62/1 A basket used for transporting the salted herring was known as a roarer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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