单词 | roisterer |
释义 | roisterer (once / 33294 pages) n A roisterer is a person who knows how to have a rollicking good time. You can describe the guy at your birthday party with the loudest laugh as a roisterer. The noun roisterer is most often used to describe someone who takes his partying too far, creating a disturbance or having too much to drink. You can also use it to talk about loud, boisterous merrymakers, like the whooping roisterers at your backyard barbecue. Roisterer isn't used much these days, but it's been around since the 1600's, from roister, or "noisy bully," with its Latin root of rusticus, "rustic" or "rough country fellow." WORD FAMILYroisterer: roisterers+/roister: roistered, roisterer, roistering, roisters USAGE EXAMPLESAnd his friends, who were daredevil roisterers, chased after him. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in...(2003) For more than two decades, she has parked her cart among the late-night roisterers of Roosevelt Avenue. New York Times(Oct 09, 2014) I came to talk with you, to get away from the roisterers at the château... Bartlett, Paul Alexander, Voices from the Past(2012) n an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker Hyper merrymaker, reveler, reveller a celebrant who shares in a noisy party |
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