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roin

roin verb: to growl; to roar.

Verb

roin (third-person singular simple present roins, present participle roining, simple past and past participle roined)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To growl; to roar.
    • Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne, when salvage choler gan redound.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun

roin (plural roins)

  1. (obsolete) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.

Forms of roin

Verb
third-person singular presentroins
present participleroining
past participleroined
pastroined
Noun
pluralroins

Origin of roin

From Anglo-Norman runger, ultimately of imitative origin.

From Anglo-Norman roigne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.

Questions about roin

What does roin mean?
Roin means to growl; to roar.
What part of speech is roin?
Roin can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of roin?
The past tense of roin is roined.

Words near roin in the dictionary

  1. roiling
  2. roilings
  3. roils
  4. roilsome
  5. roily
  6. roin
  7. roined
  8. roining
  9. roinish
  10. roins
  11. ROIP

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