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Roisterer   Listen
noun
Roisterer  n.  A blustering, turbulent fellow. "If two roisterers met, they cocked their hats in each other faces."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Roisterer" Quotes from Famous Books



... man, attentive to his affairs, and meticulously exact in all his dealings; not warm-hearted, perhaps, but just. But as if the bad blood of the entire family had come to a head in one man, Richard was born a roisterer ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler

... you mean by "understanding" them? Pardon me—to live with that roisterer coming in upon me when and whence he pleased—I prefer my broken life and ...
— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant

... accustomed to go about in the neighbourhood of their home unmolested, and thought nothing of it; and though Cherry's rosy cheeks, slim, graceful figure, and bright, laughing eyes might chance to take the fancy of some bold roisterer or dandy, and lead to an address which might frighten or annoy the maid, her father considered this the less danger than bringing her up to think herself too captivating to go about unguarded; and up till now she had met with no unwelcome ...
— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green



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