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roystering

roystering is the present participle and gerund of royster.

roystering is the obsolete form of roistering.

Meaning of roistering

Noun

roistering (plural roisterings)

  1. Noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.
    • [H]e could look on with an eye of kindness at the lookers-on too; at the roystering youth bent upon enjoyment, and here taking it […]1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

Forms of roystering

pluralroysterings

Questions about roystering

What is roystering the present participle and gerund of?
Roystering is the present participle and gerund of royster.

Words near roystering in the dictionary

  1. roysted
  2. royster
  3. roystered
  4. roysterer
  5. roysterers
  6. roystering
  7. roysterings
  8. roysterous
  9. roysters
  10. roysting
  11. Royston

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roystering (page history and authors); roistering (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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