roysterer
roysterer noun: someone who revels, a partier.
Noun
roysterer (plural roysterers)
- Someone who revels, a partier
- When his father saw him he fumed terribly, cursing like a pagan, and asking whether his son were a roysterer fit for the gallows as well as a fool fit for a cassock. On hearing which complaint the son very humbly and contritely said
'It is not my fault but the contact with the things of the Church...1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path To Rome - But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roysterers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a...1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskerville's
- Synonyms:
- merrymaker
- When his father saw him he fumed terribly, cursing like a pagan, and asking whether his son were a roysterer fit for the gallows as well as a fool fit for a cassock. On hearing which complaint the son very humbly and contritely said
Synonyms of roysterer
Forms of roysterer
| plural | roysterers |
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Origin of roysterer
From royster + -er.
Questions about roysterer
- What does roysterer mean?
- Roysterer means someone who revels, a partier.
- What part of speech is roysterer?
- Roysterer is a noun.
- What is the plural of roysterer?
- The plural of roysterer is roysterers.
Words near roysterer in the dictionary
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