royster
Americanverb (used without object)
Example Sentences
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My image loomed large, and it was no wonder that they did not connect this mythical Colossus with the swaggering royster who played buffoon for their mirth.
From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott
Bonny enough—tricked oot in her furbelows, gallivantin' wi' every royster fra Pe'rith.
From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship by Zangwill, Israel
HODDIE, HOODIE, s. a carrion crow; also applied to the black-headed or royster crow.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
The lack of oysters pained him much, for how could people royster And happy be in r-less months without the luscious oyster?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 by Various
Room for a royster; so that's well said.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
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