roister

IPA: rˈɔɪstɝ

noun

  • (archaic) A roisterer.

verb

  • (intransitive) To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.
  • (intransitive) To walk with a swaying motion.
Advertisement

Examples of "roister" in Sentences

  • They didn't pray and then roister on Midwinter's Day.
  • Rome ran herself; as the man in charge, he could do precisely what he wanted, which was to roister.
  • Ay, you must know that my husband, he drank, loafed round the parish to roister and prate, wasted and trampled our gear under foot.
  • I talked him out of it that time, and he got to workin 'on the Fish Patrol, runnin' down the very guys he used to roister around with.
  • Having fun with words can involve creative rhymes (“I do not roister with an oyster”) and nonce coinages (“my family was a scribacious lot”).
  • They keep inviting him out to hunt with them, to go drinking in the ale houses, to roister round the streets in masks, and he, nervously, declines.

Related Links

synonyms for roisterdescribing words for roister
Advertisement
#AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz

© 2025 Copyright: WordPapa