roysterers
roysterers is the plural of roysterer.
Meaning of roysterer
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
- 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
Questions about roysterers
- What is roysterers the plural of?
- Roysterers is the plural of roysterer.
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