roister
IPA: rˈɔɪstɝ
noun
- (archaic) A roisterer.
verb
- (intransitive) To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.
- (intransitive) To walk with a swaying motion.
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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.
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