roister
Americanverb (used without object)
-
to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
-
to revel noisily or without restraint.
verb
-
to engage in noisy merrymaking; revel
-
to brag, bluster, or swagger
Other Word Forms
- roisterer noun
- roisterous adjective
- roisterously adverb
Etymology
Origin of roister
First recorded in 1545–55; verb use of roister (noun), from Middle French ru(i)stre “ruffian, boor,” variant of ru(i)ste “rural” ( rustic )
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Few of the thousands of bedaubed revelers who annually roister through Manhattan's Beaux-Arts Ball realize that their patronage indirectly helps to raise money to send one architectural student to Paris for two-and-a-half years.
From Time Magazine Archive
One youngster began to roister noisily before the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prosp�re.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within, Fly members sat down to roister together.
From Time Magazine Archive
Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand.
From Moonfleet by Falkner, John Meade
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
