Roasters vs Roisters - What's the difference?
roasters | roisters |
(roister)
To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To walk with a swaying motion.
(archaic) A roisterer.
* 1839 , The New Monthly Magazine (page 411)
As a noun roasters
is plural of lang=en.As a verb roisters is
third-person singular of roister.roisters
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(head)Anagrams
* *roister
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Verb
(en verb)- Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister ? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
Synonyms
* carouse, revel, riot * (walk with a swaying motion) swaggerDerived terms
* roisterer * roisterous * roisterouslyNoun
(en noun)- The youth who had joined the roisters , was apparently about eighteen