Ronin vs Roin - What's the difference?
ronin | roin |
A masterless samurai.
(colloquial, Japan) A student who has failed the entrance examination for the high school or university of their choice and spends the next year studying to retake the exam.
(obsolete) To growl; to roar.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
As nouns the difference between ronin and roin
is that ronin is a masterless samurai while roin is a scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.As a verb roin is
to growl; to roar.ronin
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(wikipedia ronin)Noun
(ronin)roin
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) runger, ultimately of imitative origin.Verb
(en verb)- Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne , when salvage choler gan redound.