Synonyms for roisterer

Grammar : Noun

Spell : roi-ster

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɔɪ stər

Définition of roisterer

Origin : "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).

As in reveler : noun carouser

Example sentences :

A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief!
Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath

"Ever at your quips, roisterer," said Innerkepple, as they arrived at the court.
Extract from : « Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I » by Various

Enter once more the junior tutor; nothing said to the roisterer; Cospatric to pay an official call at twelve-thirty on the morrow.
Extract from : « The Recipe for Diamonds » by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Gang-y-gate swinger, a fighting man, who goes swaggering in the road (or gate); a roisterer who takes the wall of every one.
Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 » by Various

But as if the bad blood of the entire family had come to a head in one man, Richard was born a roisterer and a spendthrift.
Extract from : « A Woman Named Smith » by Marie Conway Oemler

What right had he, roisterer by night that he was, predaceous outlaw, what right had he to look upon Fortune as his own?
Extract from : « The Carpet from Bagdad » by Harold MacGrath

Cavalier in English was early applied in a contemptuous sense to an overbearing swashbuckler—a roisterer or swaggering gallant.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 » by Various

Will you find in your famous Place Louis Quinze any roisterer of the regency grown old and careful of his diet?
Extract from : « From the Easy Chair, series 3 » by George William Curtis

Heinrich was not a roisterer like his father: he was a man of education and dignity.
Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 » by Elbert Hubbard

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