roose
roose verb: to flatter or praise.
Verb
roose (third-person singular simple present rooses, present participle roosing, simple past and past participle roosed)
- To flatter or praise.
- Ha'e na ye roosed my cheeks like the morning? Ha'e na ye roosed my cherry-red mou?1809, Hector MacNeill, Oh, Tell Me How For to Woo.
- He roosed my e'en, sae bonnie blue, He roosed my waist sae genty sma' And aye my heart came to my mou' When ne'er a body heard or saw.1870, Robert Burns, “Young Jockey”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Complete.
- To be proud.
- I'll cock my nose aboon them a' — I'm roosed by Craigengillan !1865, The British Poets - Volume 2, page 43
- A'm roosed — a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid, ye ken, when ye tell me a canna gaff a fusshe ! Tak aff yere coat, mon, for a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid.1874, Francis Francis, By Lake and River: an Angler's Rambles in the North of England and Scotland
Proper noun capitalized: Roose
Roose (countable and uncountable, plural Rooses)
- A surname.
- An eastern suburb of Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD2269).
Examples of roose in a sentence
- For some of them ha'e roosed their hawks, And some other their hounds; And some other their ladies fair, As the roosing went the rounds.1871, “Maid Mettelil”, in The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland:
- You will have seen how a' the newspapers roosed the skatin o' an offisher, that they said lived in the Castle.1876, John Wilson, Sir John Skelton, The Comedy of the Noctes Ambrosianae, page 51:
- I suld ha'e said ' Ye're a' that's guid,' I suld ha'e sung, ' Ye're a' that's bonnie,' I suld ha'e roosed your race an' bluid — O' a' the three I've ne'er dune ony.1890, James Coghill, “To Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, On the Anniversary of Her Coronation, 28th June”, in Poems, Songs and Sonnets, page...
- They danced round and round their merry Jockie Faw, And roosed the gypsie laddie.1921, Lowry Charles Wimberly, Minstrelsy, Music, and the Dance in the English and Scottish Popular Ballads:
Forms of roose
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | rooses |
| present participle | roosing |
| past participle | roosed |
| past | roosed |
| alternative form | ruse |
| alternative form | ruis |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Rooses |
Origin of roose
From Middle English rosen (“to boast”), from Old Norse hrósa (“to boast; praise”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþsōną, from *hrōþaz, *hrōþiz (“fame; glory; praise”). Cognate with Icelandic hrósa, Danish rose, Swedish rosa.
Questions about roose
- What does roose mean?
- Roose means to flatter or praise.
- How do you use roose in a sentence?
- For some of them ha'e roosed their hawks, And some other their hounds; And some other their ladies fair, As the roosing went the rounds.
- What part of speech is roose?
- Roose can be a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the past tense of roose?
- The past tense of roose is roosed.
Words near roose in the dictionary
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