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Roister   Listen
verb
Roister  v. i.  To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent. "I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks."





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"Roister" Quotes from Famous Books



... mirrored wall of the Cafe Americain, a thousand incandescents, a string quartette sighing through "Un Peu d'Amour," a quart of "wine." Romance to him is a dinner jacket prowling by night into the comic opera (American libretto) purlieus of modern Montmartre, with its spurious extravaganzas of rouge and roister, with its spider webs of joy. For him, there is romance in the pleasure girls who sit at the tables touching St. Michel before the Cafe d'Harcourt, making patient pretence of sipping their Byrrh until a passing "Eh, bebe" assails ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright


Words linked to "Roister" :   jollify, revel, make happy, carouse, make merry, racket, make whoopie, riot, whoop it up


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