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Roister vs Hoister - What's the difference?

roister | hoister |

As nouns the difference between roister and hoister

is that roister is (archaic) a roisterer while hoister is one who, or that which, hoists.

As a verb roister

is to engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.

roister

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 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.'
  • To walk with a swaying motion.

    • Synonyms

    * carouse, revel, riot * (walk with a swaying motion) swagger

    Derived terms

    * roisterer * roisterous * roisterously

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A roisterer.
  • * 1839 , The New Monthly Magazine (page 411)
    • The youth who had joined the roisters , was apparently about eighteen

    Anagrams

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    hoister

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, hoists.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom.