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roister-doisters

roister-doisters is the plural of roister-doister.

Meaning of roister-doister

Noun

roister-doister (plural roister-doisters)

  1. (archaic, derogatory) A swaggering buffoon; a foolish braggart.
    • A very artificiall beginning, to moove attention or to procure good-liking in the reader, unlesse he wrote onely to roister-doisters, and hacksters, or at least to jesters, and vices.1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation

Questions about roister-doisters

What is roister-doisters the plural of?
Roister-doisters is the plural of roister-doister.

Words near roister-doisters in the dictionary

  1. Roisin
  2. roist
  3. roisted
  4. roister
  5. roister-doister
  6. roister-doisters
  7. roistered
  8. roisterer
  9. roisterers
  10. roistering
  11. roisteringly

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