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单词 roarer
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roarern.1

Brit. /ˈrɔːrə/, U.S. /ˈrɔrər/
Forms: see roar v.1 and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: roar v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < roar v.1 + -er suffix1.
1.
a. A person who or thing which roars.
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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.
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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.
c. A seller of newspapers in the street who calls out sensational news. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.
3. U.S. slang. A remarkable or outstanding person; a person (occasionally a thing) regarded as superlative or notable. See also ring-tailed roarer at ring-tailed adj. 3. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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

Brit. /ˈrɔːrə/, U.S. /ˈrɔrər/
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Dutch, combined with an English element. Etymons: rore v., -er suffix1; roar v.2, -er suffix1; Dutch roeren , -er suffix1.
Etymology: Either < an unattested specific use of rore v. (although this word is not otherwise attested after the 16th cent.) + -er suffix1, or < roar v.2 (although this is first attested later) + -er suffix1, or perhaps showing a borrowing < Dutch roeren to move, stir (see rore v.) + -er suffix1. Compare earlier roaring n.2 With sense 2 compare earlier roaring basket n. at roaring n.2
English regional (chiefly East Anglian). Now rare.
1. A person who turns salt herrings.
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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.
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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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