Roisterer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who roisters; a reveller.

    "But go to—carry thy roisterers elsewhere—to the alehouse if they list, and there are crowns to pay your charges—make out the day’s madness without doing more mischief, and be wise men to-morrow—and hereafter learn to serve a good cause better than by acting like ruffians."

  2. 2
    an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker wordnet

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"But go to—carry thy roisterers elsewhere—to the alehouse if they list, and there are crowns to pay your charges—make out the day’s madness without doing more mischief, and be wise men to-morrow—and hereafter learn to serve a good cause better than by acting like ruffians."

Etymology

From roister + -er.

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